Word: background
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Artist Artzyba-sheff's cover background was a symbolization of today's airway bridges between the continents-and he did not ask permission to enter his native country where he pleased...
...Cruz staged one plenary session in a mountain glen, with snow-capped peaks as a background. For other sessions, he ran wires from the flag-festooned auditorium of the Teatro Independencia to amplifiers in the main plaza. As a result, most of mystified Mendoza heard an overpowering discussion of existentialism...
...Yalemen over the years he was known as "Bonnie Prince Charley"-a debonair and engaging scholar, with a flair for energetic lecturing (he virtually acted out the battle scenes). In his first years on the Yale faculty, his Diplomatic Background of the War (1916) did more than any other book to explain to literate Americans what the European war then raging was all about. It so impressed Woodrow Wilson that the President invited him to Paris in 1919 as a member of the U.S. peace delegation. After that, Seymour settled on the campus-first as professor, then as provost, finally...
Monday afternoon produced a jolly get-together in the British Officers mess, to which Harvard and Princeton were invited. An enlisted men's band provided musical background while the officers bustled about and made themselves friendly. Then there was a small tete-a-tete out at the Breakers Hotel, which featured the Talbot brothers, a pair of Calypso artists. It was supposed to be a swimming party but it was too cold to swim. Five other days swimming was hampered by rain which fell in varying quantities, the main deluge coming on Thursday, the day Harvard played Yale...
...last week, after months of persevering work, eight suit-rumpling, eye-opening trips into the dusty hinterland, a steadily growing acquaintance with the Italian temper and background, Zellerbach felt that it was all a lot bigger job than anyone had realized at the start. The business proposition was also a proposition in national and human subtleties. With larger perspective but undiminished determination, Zellerbach said: "It's more of a challenge than ever." Italian ministers were more mellow, too. They were thinking less in political and regional and more in overall economic terms. They were leaning on Zellerbach for counsel...