Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard men will modestly concede that architecturally at least, Harvard "has it" over M.I.T. Since last May, however, theatre devotees have revised at least part of this notion and looked wistfully further down the Charles where M.I.T. has begun to build its theatre. Now half built, the auditorium should send Harvard theatre planners scurrying down Massachusetts Avenue in inspection, for the new building is an architectural novelty...
...this stage of the battle, Ho's military intentions are not clear. From Thakhek, he could move northwest against Luang Prabang, the Laotian royal capital; he could move south towards Savannakhet and its important nearby airfield. He could dig in at Thakhek and wait for the French to send reinforcements from the decisive delta against him. At Thakhek, too, he could pose a threat to neutral but strongly anti-Communist Siam. The Siamese were taking no chances: they declared nine provinces an emergency zone and moved troops and artillery to the Mekong, directly opposite the Communist positions...
When Grandma was finally persuaded to send some of her pictures to a country fair, along with canned fruits and jam, her preserves won prizes but her paintings attracted little attention. Not long after, however, a drugstore in the nearby town of Hoosick Falls, N.Y. put some of her pictures in the window. There they were spotted by a Manhattan collector named Louis Caldor. He bought them all and began trying to interest New York art dealers in Grandma's work. Finally he tried the newly opened Galerie St. Etienne, run by a solemn Viennese expatriate named Otto Kallir...
diplomatic counterplay. Two weeks ago, India signed a five-year trade agreement-of unspecified amount-with Moscow, pledging to send jute products, tea, coffee, shellac and black pepper to Russia in return for 39 items, such as petroleum, "iron and steel manufactures," and "a wide range of industrial equipment." This agreement could easily be turned into supplying India with Russian military hardware, if the U.S. and Pakistan made a deal. In New Delhi, foreign diplomats suspect that it was Russia that first suggested this possibility to India...
Starting April 1, Canada will send all first-class out-of-town mail by air. Postage rates will be increased from 4? to 5? for a one-ounce letter, but there will no longer be an additional charge for air delivery; Canada's 7? airmail stamps will be discontinued...