Word: evergreen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...throngs at Memorial Hall will be only a foretaste of what a bustling, overcrowded Harvard must face during the next few years. 2000 incoming freshmen and returning veterans will find queues, chowlines and packed classrooms as much a part of undergraduate life as the waning tutorial system and the evergreen Harvard tradition of individual development. How the individual is to be developed, how he is to benefit from the peculiar combination of intellectual wealth and academic freedom that are the treasures of the College, is a far greater problem than it was in the "normal" years. At the point where...
Leipzig's great railway station was smashed and burned in the bombings, but its charred walls were hung last week with red bunting, evergreen boughs and Socialist slogans. Tens of thousands of Germans, transported on 95 special trains, poured through it to Leipzig's first fair since 1941. Other Germans came, as visitors to the Leipzig Fair had come 700 years ago, by horse & wagon and a foot...
Pillbox Mailbox. In Evergreen Bluff, Mich., Allen Chesbro, after five successive wooden mailboxes had been flattened by drunken drivers, built No. 6 on a 15-in. steel beam, buttressed by 16 tons of concrete, guarded by a 130-lb. rail, topped off by an ominous replica of a blockbuster bomb...
...Soviet Institute of Frozen Ground, which has prepared an atlas of frozen-ground areas throughout the world, had built up a wartime ice cover on the Moscow reservoir so thick that ordinary bombs could not damage it. A top dressing of evergreen branches kept the ice from melting until midsummer...
...Evergreen State. In war-boomed Washington the G.O.P.'s square-jawed Governor Arthur B. Langlie went out. In went the Democratic's shrewd, poker-playing U.S. Senator (and Truman committeeman) Mon C. Wallgren...