Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this specifically to inform me that, while many individuals among the General Authorities and among the church membership were strongly in favor of the Sunday Closing Law, the church as an organization was not attempting to influence my decision. The decision, a difficult one, was made for the reasons set forth in my veto message. This decision in no wise represented a "revolt" against the church...
Tripe. In Burlington, Vt., an agricultural journal listed the contents of the stomach of a slaughtered bull: safety pins, bobby pins, cartridge casings, two rubber heels, a key chain, a set of gold dental bridgework, nine pennies, 16 nails, two plastic bags, a toy wristwatch, a gold watchband, a fishing spinner, five clothespins, six can lids, two hypodermic needles, two earrings, a broken pop bottle, 24 bottle caps, half an inner tube, a rubber doll...
...Ingrid Waldron '61 started to get up from one of the stone seats in the Radcliffe Quad yesterday, she accidentally set off a planted explosive which burned both her arms...
Despite an historically inaccurate interpretation by Charles Munch, Bach's St. Matthew Passion received a generally good performance yesterday from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, five soloists, the Harvard Glee Club, and the Radcliffe Choral Society. In most places not up to the exacting standards set by Hermann Scherchen on Westminster records, Mr. Munch's rendition was marred seriously by his treatment of Bach as Verdi, and by the unfortunate deletion of many beautiful arias and chorales. He also cut parts of reciatatives, which are essential to the full meaning of the story of the Passion and of the work...
...world is all set for four or five decades of revolutionary change, whether we like it or not," Miss Ward predicted. "This is inevitable due to the break-down of the old colonial system and a tremendous population rise, which will add some seven billion more people to the world by the turn of the century...