Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majority of students are in the graduate departments, but the CRIMSON just does not get around to cover them. As one result the Law School student body, famously busy as it is, now published its own weekly Record. You could not guess from the CRIMSON that Harvard's hometown of Cambridge has been batting successfully, for some years, toward a sound municipal government. Some 75 percent of Harvard students are veterans receiving government benefits, but if you want to read about the ins and outs of the local V.A., the progress of veterans legislation at the State House...
...director of the News Office had worked in Washington before the war for the Associated Press from 1935 to 1940 and did newspaper work on his hometown paper, the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, before that...
Last summer Matsumoto again proved he was worthy of his nickname by climbing 12,395-ft. Mt. Fuji carrying a heavy stone on his back. Next he ran 56 miles from Shirakawa to Fukushima. Last week he topped all previous feats by trotting nonstop from his hometown to Tokyo's Ueno Station. The distance": 117 miles, five times the historic run from Marathon to Athens. The time: 29 hours...
...climax of his hometown address Baptist Newton reached for a high ¶of Christian optimism in calling upon his audience to pray for the conversion of ex-seminarian Joseph Stalin. "Think what it would mean to the world if this man-the most influential man on earth-should stand up and say that he had returned to the faith of his dear scrubwoman mother...
Corporal Valtin's job in the 24th was gathering Joe Blow stories to be sent to U.S. hometown papers. Much of Children of Yesterday reads like an extended P.R.O. report: Pvt. So-and-So of Topeka, Kans. did this, Lieut. So-and-So of Valdosta, Ga. did that. So many hundreds (probably 500 to 1,000) of individuals are mentioned by rank, name and home address that at points the text must come almost straight from unit rosters...