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Harvard's nearest approach to a homecoming weekend explodes tonight with a torchlight pre-Dartmouth parade and rally scheduled for 7:15 p.m. outside University Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rally Torches Flare for Varsity's 'Homecoming' | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

...darkness, crying: "Chiu ming! Chiu ming!" (Save life! Save life!). Pale lightning flickered and thunderclaps split the sky as men, women & children labored with spade, hoe and hands to pile even higher the earthen ramparts of the river dikes. Downriver, other watchmen, gongs in hand, their silhouettes reflected by torchlight, anxiously measured the rising flood crest. Then they, too, beat their booming summons in the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chiu Ming! | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

Among the old masterpieces from Germany now touring the U.S. (last week they were in Philadelphia) was one painting that was almost out of place, it looked so modern. It was a scene bathed in sickly torchlight, chill as a tomb, still as death-a stark and somber painting called Saint Sebastian Mourned by Saint Irene. To most gallerygoers the name under it-Georges de la Tour-meant nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lost & Found | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...Torchlight Parade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 17 More Schools Join Marshall Plan Group | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

...other colleges entered the campaign, the Harvard-Radcliffe committee went ahead with its own plans for next week's rally at Sanders Theater. The Band will lead a torchlight parade before the program starts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 17 More Schools Join Marshall Plan Group | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

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