Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...clock one night last week a long, dark green train standing in the Northern Pacific yards in Seattle quivered with the first tug of the engine, jolted a little as it gained speed, whistled as it raced toward the East. The Willkie Special was headed for home; the campaign tour that had led through the Southwest, up the Pacific Coast, was half over. The correspondents in the press lounge and the dining car, their stories already filed, argued over their Scotch & sodas-about the Third Term, the merits of Roosevelt and Willkie, the size and meaning of the crowds...
...precisely 1:15 o'clock in the afternoon Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop scrawled his signature at the bottom of the first copy of the document, addressed himself to duplicate and triplicate. Count Ciano followed him and Ambassador Kurusu signed last. The signing took two minutes. As Ambassador Kurusu laid down his pen the door behind him opened. With a nervous, catlike walk Adolf Hitler came in. He shook hands with the Italian and Japanese emissaries, sat down next to Ciano. Joachim von Ribbentrop stood up and through a battery of microphones proceeded to tell the world that Japan...
Four untested sophomores hold the key to the success or failure of Coach Jack Carr's 1940 soccer squad which opens a nine-game schedule with Tufts this afternoon at 1 o'clock on the Business School Field...
...Words and Sentences" will be the subject of the lecture by Bertrand Russell, noted British philosopher, this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. It will be the first of a series of twelve lectures to be given by Dr. Russell on consecutive Friday afternoons in his capacity of William James Lecturer in Philosophy...
...Life and Teachings of Leon Trotsky" will be the subject of a speech by Max Shachtman, American translator and editor of Trotsky's works, in the Peabody Room of Phillips Brooks House tonight at 8 o'clock. The talk is sponsored by the Socialist League, Fourth International...