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Word: entertainment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Class of 1888, the oldest unit which will celebrate as a group, holds its sixtieth reunion tomorrow. At a dinner in his Concord home Charles Francis Adams '88 will entertain his mates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Festivities | 6/9/1948 | See Source »

Richard last night issued a call for volunteers who would like to entertain European students visiting the U.S. during the vacation. The National Student Association has invited a limited group from foreign colleges to spend the summer in this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Students Seek Homes Here During Summer | 5/11/1948 | See Source »

...Bureaux Instruction," she read, "... I appreciate the vital . . . importance to Soviet security of acquiring the details of Anglo-American general strategy without delay. ... I have taken steps to ensure [my wife's] ignorance and, in view of her youth and political illiteracy, it is impossible for her to entertain the smallest suspicions. . . . [But] I suggest that the method of communicating by blank postcard should be discontinued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Serpent in Uniform | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Yardlings, still in quest of their first victory, journey to Milton Academy this afternoon, while their Junior Varsity counterparts, who have only a tie game with the Freshmen to their credit, entertain the Tufts Jayvees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dusk Ends '51-BU Game in 7-7 Tie | 4/16/1948 | See Source »

...orders. Their findings led directly to blond, youngish Monsignor Eduardo Prettner Cippico, a well-born native of Trieste and a Vatican archivist. Though his salary was meager, Cippico owned an 18,000,000-lire apartment in Rome, an Alfa Romeo, a Fiat and a Chrysler. He liked to entertain expensively. The day before Easter last year, waiters at a fashionable restaurant at Posillipo, near Naples, had their hopes of an afternoon off dashed when Cippico phoned that he would be lunching there at 3. He spent the afternoon beside the Bay of Naples with an operatic soprano. He said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VATICAN CITY: The Pope's Mail | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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