Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans to develop "a completely new relationship between the graduates and the undergraduate members" of the Pi Eta Club, motivated in part by "a strong feeling among graduates that undergraduates are exposed to too much liberal thinking within the College," have been initiated by T.T. Pond '21, President of the Associates of the Club...
...distant thump of artillery and the crunch of aerial bombs. Ahead and in some hills to the south, puffs of white billowed where shells and bombs found targets. In a village which had been retaken from the Communists the day before, an old peasant woman squatted at a roadside pond unconcernedly whacking at her laundry with a wooden paddle. Behind her on the mud wall of her burned-out hut the Reds, before they were beaten back, had splashed slogans in white paint: "Fight to Nanking!", "Land for the Tillers!" and "Capture the liar Chiang alive...
...filled with the heroes that grew as the nation grew. "It's more fun than arithmetic," said one eighth-grader. "I wish we had a blue ox like Babe out on my dad's ranch. I'll bet she'd dig him a stock pond just like she dug Lake Michigan...
...library didn't know quite what to do with it. The Ladies Village Improvement Society, which sponsors an annual summer fair on the village green, had an idea. Next summer's merry-go-round and hay rides will have strong competition: gondola rides on the village pond...
...Peabody & the Mermaid (Universal-International). Mr. Peabody (William Powell), a proper Bostonian on vacation far from Beacon Street, hooks the Mermaid (Ann Blyth) in Caribbean waters. He keeps her first in his bathtub, then in his fish pond. He likes her, more than seems proper for a married man to like a mermaid. She likes him, too. She bites a girl who is flirting with him, and causes his jealous wife to huff back to Boston. In the long run the lovers have to part and a psychiatrist takes over with a full explanation. Men around 50, he points...