Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other big name in Harvard legal medicine is that of Alan R. Moritz, who until this summer was director of the Department...
...campaign, the Students set up their organization. First they contacted the leaders in all the Boston schools; then they sent letters inviting as many Boston students as could be accommodated to come to a mass meeting at the Parker House. Though that was one of these hot nights last summer, more than three hundred students showed up. Soon afterwards, the group met formally and elected Daniel J. Ahern of Boston College as president with Rapaport as his executive secretary. The ward leaders were appointed and the campaign work began...
...prey. American students, lured by a dreamy conception of sunny Italy drawn from Browning, Fine Arts 11, and "The Lays of Ancient Rome," came down in swarms from France and Switzerland. In Venice, St. Mark's square looked as though all of Harvard had been transferred there for the summer term, and if you got lost in the incredible tangle of streets and canals in other parts of the city, it was a sure bot you could spot a seersucker jacket and follow it back to familiar ground...
...standing with one foot on the quai and one in a gondola haggling with the gondolier over prices when the gondolier gave a quick twist with his car . . . One of the oddest hazards of the summer was the admonishment in a cata-comb in Rome, "Persons tampering with the relics will be excommunicated...
...bombed rubble on ancient edi- fices. Inflation is particularly bad in Italy--the lira is a mere fiftieth of its prewar value. American wallets were much too small for the wads of paper money they had to hold. The thousand lire note, worth about $1.75 this summer, was the size and consistency of a large piece of Kleenex...