Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, with every avenue apparently closed, extinction of the champion crew seems certain. Reassuring word for any disappointed Crimson oarsmen, however, has drifted down from Northampton, where a boatload of inexperienced but definitely eager beauties has been training all fall, and is apparently ready and willing to take a crack at the Charles Challenge...
...building was designed by Charles Bulfinch, class of 1781 and the greatest American architect of the times, but utility and the budget limited him through most of the job. In the chapel he had a free hand and the result was one of his finest creations, according to the word of contemporary experts. At any rate, it was the chief meeting place of the college, and was always much in use during big celebrations such as Class Day and Exhibition Day. Dignitaries from the outside world, including La Fayette, James Monroe, and Andrew Jackson, frequently were received in the chapel...
...chill, gilded chamber of the House of Commons was hushed as the neat grey man in the neat grey business suit reached the climax of his speech. In the packed galleries tense, brown-skinned men leaned forward to catch every word. Prime Minister Clement Attlee's thin voice carried a statement fat with destiny. He read...
Bostonians who wanted to see Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh would have to see it elsewhere-maybe in suburban Quincy, where they saw his banned Strange Interlude in 1929. Boston's censor, who had demanded that some blunt words be dropped from the play, got a blunt reply from O'Neill: "Idiotic. ... I will not change, nor allow to be changed, one word. . . . Boston audiences, I am sure ... do not want plays . . . made silly by ... stupid censorship...
...Little. For the Pennsy's woes, President Martin Withington Clement had a two-word explanation: "Government regulation." When rail workers were awarded an 18½? wage increase in mid-1946, it was made retroactive to Jan. 1. But ICC delayed giving the railroads a 17.6% rate increase until last December. Furthermore, said Clement, additional boosts are necessary...