Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came-at 8:30 on the night of May 9, a telephone call from big, indignant Ambassador John Cudahy in Brussels, who called President Roosevelt at the White House, got Secretary "Pa" Watson, and scooped all journalists with the flat statement that the Germans were marching in that night. Official Washington went through the pattern of crisis that eight months of war had made terrifyingly familiar...
...Watson B. Dickerman '41 of Long Island, New York, was elected captain of the 1941 golf team at a meeting of the lettermen yesterday afternoon, succeeding William A. Cordingley '40 of Leverett House and Des Moines, Iowa...
...Harvard Fund Council is composed of 30 elected and appointed alumni with the 64 Class Agents doing the actual campaigning. Most recently these include F. Stanton Deland, Jr. '36, Robert B. Watson '37, H. Shippen Goodhue '38 and Robert Bunker '39,. Distinguished Class Agents of the past include Bishop Lawrence '71, Judge Robert Grant '73, Charles C. Burlingham, New York attorney, and G. Peabody Gardner...
Smetana: Quartet No. I ("From My Life") (Curtis String Quartet; Columbia: 7 sides) and Dvořák: Sextet in A Major (Budapest String Quartet, with John Moore, second cello, and Watson Forbes, second viola; Victor: 8 sides). Polka-dotted nostalgia by old Bohemia's greatest composers; the Dvořák for the first time on records...
...Watson recommended observers to try to realize the relative small size of the moon's diameter of 2000 miles to the 866.000 mile diameter of the sun. He also explained that the reason eclipses of the moon do not take place more often is the fact that the orbit of the moon varies five degrees from that of the earth...