Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...football and literary work are the chief extra-curricular interests of the students; the annoyance of wandering in perilous search of cafeteria food during the four days between our required arrival and the opening of the freshman dining halls; the incompetence of the student advisory system which does not send our counsellors to interview us until we have already passed the uncertain stage of finding our way about in the bewilderment of our new life...
...were concentrating in mobile groups at centers like Namdinh. The French redeployment was no simple matter: Communist guerrillas had often worked so closely around the forts that full-scale offensive operations were needed to withdraw a two-platoon garrison. The day after the fanon ceremony, Cogny had to send 2,000 men, 200 vehicles and 15 tanks to rescue 110 Vietnamese infantrymen from Doaithan and Thanhne, a couple of surrounded forts less than 20 miles from Namdinh. Cabled TIME Correspondent John Mecklin, who rode with the French column...
...Country Life magazine casually opened the entries in weekly contest No. 1266. The name signed beneath the first correct solution he came across was H.R.H. Princess Margaret, Clarence House, St. James's, London. After a discreet telephone call proved that this was no hoax, Country Life prepared to send Crossworder Margaret the prize: her choice of $8.82 worth of sporting books...
...second council, about 100 years later, heard a plea by some monks for relaxation of discipline, which foreshadowed a great split in Buddhism. At the third council, about 244 B.C., it was decided to send out missionaries to other countries; and at the fourth, in the 1st century A.D., the big split crystallized. It divides the Buddhist world to this day between the traditional Hinayana Buddhists, who look upon Buddha as a human teacher, and the more recent and increasingly influential Mahayana Buddhists, who worship him as a divine being...
Celestial Grandmother. Queen Mary never haggled over prices, but she rarely overpaid. And she performed many acts of royal kindness for favored dealers. When one once tripped in the Queen's presence, she said: "I am sure you need glasses. I shall send you to my optician." Another dealer, who collected Chinese lion figures, got one as a present from Queen Mary every Christmas for 20 years; the last one arrived last Christmas, months after her death. It had been wrapped and consigned far in advance...