Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spade into the ground and turned over the first pile of Abilene earth on the plot where the $3,000,000 Eisenhower Library will stand (said he, when photographers asked for the inevitable "one more": "I'm halfway down to China now, fellas"). At a luncheon later, he spoke feelingly of the "very deep, sentimental meaning" that Abilene still holds for him. From its "heyday of, let's say, Wild West hilarity and even worse," Abilene has become a "community of Godfearing, hardworking, simple people. It seems to me there's a sort of cross section...
...Radcliffe Development Fund Conference rounded out its two-day schedule last night with a dinner in Radcliffe's Comstock Hall. Wilbur K. Jordan, president of Radcliffe, spoke briefly to the group of 150 Radcliffe fund raisers...
About 400 others were jostled in the stampede, only to be turned away at the door by the University police enforcing fire laws against overcrowding. To the remaining 450, MacLeish spoke for 50 minutes about two phases of poetry...
...analyzing a poem's sounds and their relation to its meaning, he spoke of repetition as being the "major element of sound in poetry." To support his feelings, he played a recording of Dylan Thomas's reading of his poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," and later recited the poem himself...
Bishop John P. Cody (Class of '32) of Kansas City spoke for all the North American College's old grads this weekend when he said: "This institution is ageless. We who have studied here give thanks to Almighty God for the good the college has done. And we are confident the future will be even more glorious...