Word: tableted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That decision, unanimous with the exception of the Student Council's representative, favors a $200,000 name-tablet in Memorial Church, coupled with a $500,000 scholarship fund, for commemoration of the University's Second World War dead. In itself it simply represents the expectable hesitancy on the part of the chieftains of the Alumni Association and the Associated Harvard Clubs to conduct the fundraising campaign which the undergraduate-endowed Student Activities Center would involve. But justified resentful response to the decision will rest with the near-chicanery of the Committee's procedure and its continuous hush-hush policy...
...Activities Center should make crystal-clear its willingness to help raise cash as well as to wait several years if necessary for the proper opportunity for such a drive. Above all its stand must be respectful while firm enough to prevent the planned expenditure of $200,000 for a tablet-motif memorial from going forward...
Greedy Manhattan can gulp up a convention crowd as easily as a sword swallower taking an aspirin tablet. But last week, as 250,000 members of the American Legion poured in for their biggest national convention since Pearl Harbor, the Big City cleared for action. It moved everything movable out of hotel lobbies, boarded up plate-glass windows, ordered its cops to be especially paternal, and then, as resignedly as Cleveland, Miami or Omaha, waited for the first big bang...
...muddy waters of the Tiber merge with the blue Mediterranean. The town's life seems as sluggish as the river, but beneath the apparent calm there is a deep, turbulent rift which sometimes whirls up like an assault of wind-whipped breakers. That rift is symbolized by the tablet in the city hall commemorating Garibaldi's visit in 1849 (after the Republicans had driven the Pope from Rome), and by the blue & white statue of the Virgin Mary in the church...
...this method as the one most likely to keep alive enough semen for a few more calves. Failing to find it, they buried the body under the elms of the Turner ranch. As the greatest sire in Hereford history, Old 81st had already provided the epitaph for the bronze tablet that will mark his grave...