Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since I cannot stop it, I should like to gather such data as I may. I should like to learn what effect explosions have on marine life and how the balance of nature is affected...
...agency best able to gather information on Nazi treatment of Poland is the Catholic Church. Last week the Vatican radio let go for three days running on this subject, later released a bloodcurdling, stomach-turning report on treatment of Poles prepared by Augustus Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, Archbishop of Gnesen and Posen, who escaped to Rome...
Every ten years educators, parents, social workers, doctors gather in Washington for a check-up on the condition of U. S. children. President Theodore Roosevelt started it by calling the first White House Conference on children in 1909. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover followed suit in 1919 and 1930. Last week Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins rapped a gavel, called to order the fourth decennial White House Conference on Children in a Democracy...
...Westminster chimes each quarter-hour. Ohioans cheer lustily for their championship football, basketball, swimming teams. Their 60 fraternities, 20 sororities (enrolling a third of the student body, who can live in them for $5 a month more than in a rooming house) give frequent dances. Each after noon undergraduates gather in Hennick's, across High Street, for sodas and 3.2 beer. Other customs: strolling down the Long Walk, which bisects the campus; necking on the banks of sulfur-smelling Mirror Lake...
...EAGLES GATHER-Taylor Caldwell -Scribner ($2.50). After World War I the Bouchards, most powerful...