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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again in last year's Bulldog sinking with 2:39.4. Diving mentor Bernie Kelley, although disconsolate over the loss of Bob Aaron, still has one of the best board men ever to mount the tower in Tom Drohan, who should have numerous high degrees of difficult feats to unveil by the time the team faces the Greenwood...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/4/1947 | See Source »

...Rockport, Me., the late Captain Hanson Gregory, who may or may not have deserved the honor, was about to receive thundering recognition from his community. This week selectmen-prodded by the Doughnut Corp. of America-would unveil a plaque: "This is the birthplace of Capt. Hanson Gregory, who first invented the hole in the doughnut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Lost & Found | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...fifth of the population of Halifax war doubled up or living in attics or basements. All last week the Dominion awaited a wondrous new housing plan which Reconstruction Minister C. D. Howe was to unveil. When he spoke, in Vancouver, the best he could do was to promise 6,000 more homes-a year from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Thanksgiving Day, 1947 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Lincoln, Neb., a state commission was all set to unveil a statue of Democrat William Jennings Bryan when Republicans were seized with a sense of esthetics. The statue of the Great Commoner looked "like an abandoned suitcase," critics declared, and was grossly out of proportion to "the powerful, magnificent splendor" of the Capitol's gold-glazed dome. G.O.P. Governor Val Peterson took a middle course. He ruled that the statue could be unveiled Labor Day as scheduled, but might later be moved to a less controversial spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...clock was finally in place on Aug. 15, the Feast of the Assumption. The inauguration was divided into two parts: a civil ceremony on land, and a religious one at sea. At the first, Rocchi was to unveil the clock, which was wrapped in sackcloth. At the second, the statue of the Virgin Mary would be taken out to sea in a fishing vessel and Father Bernardoni would throw a wreath upon the waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Clock for Fiumicino | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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