Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glee Club activities reach the year's climax this week, as the College Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society join the Boston Symphony Orchestra in three appearances at Symphony Hall, beginning with the annual pension fund concert tomorrow night at 8:20 o'clock...
Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Johauncs Brahms' death, his "A German Requiem" will highlight the pension concert. Serge Koussevitsky will conduct the orchestra and chorus in the well-known work, which will feature James Pease and Frances Yeend in the baritono and zoprano roles...
...cleared his land, expanded his tiny holding into a sizable section and a half (960 acres). A few years ago he turned his farm over to his sons, now lives comfortably with the help of his old-age pension. In his time, the Ukrainians in Canada have increased to 325,000, the Dominion's sixth largest ethnic group. "I have no desire to return to the Ukraine, even to see it," he says. "My life in Canada has been too happy to want to return...
...paper, the end looked wonderful. Alberta's Bill of Rights guaranteed the fundamental rights of worship, speech, lawful assembly, and a few more. Among the added starters: 1) a minimum income of $600 a year to every adult Albertan, 2) a pension for all from 19 to 60 years who were unemployed or unemployable; 3) all the necessaries of life and education for those under 19; and 4) retirement benefits for folks over...
...tickled by the education gadgets (building blocks, boards with colored pegs) that helped to make learning more fun in the U.S. Other differences: more paper work; the higher cost of living (her English school still pays her salary, which comes to a scant $25 a week after tax and pension deductions); the unpopularity of walking as a recreation; the way U.S. children sing familiar nursery rhymes, e.g., London Bridge Is Falling Down, Sing a Song of Sixpence, to unfamiliar tunes. A five-year-old in her class is a self-appointed interpreter ("Miss Eades means banana...