Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with grandfather Foster to attend the Second Hague Conference. Grandfather, good friend of the Chinese, had agreed to serve for them as a plenipotentiary, and 19-year-old Foster became secretary of the Chinese delegation, wearing a cutaway and going to receptions and paying almost no attention to a hometown girl in hair ribbons whom he happened to meet on a trip to Paris...
Last Christmas, 50 Schools Committee men visited their hometown Harvard clubs and interviewed promising, students. Their reports indicated that many Harvard clubs fell far behind other Ivy League organizations in "selling" their school...
...hockey victory was clearly a case of a team being "up" for a game before a hometown crowd. Cooney Weiland's squad, by contrast, seemed dead on its skates, quite likely the result of weariness from two previous games that week. Only defenseman Dusty Burke, who checked viciously, and center Walt Greeley, who tallied the Crimson's lone goal with a half-minute remaining in the game, showed the scrap which had characterized the team in pre-exam games. The final score (5 to 1) was not indicative of the relative strength of the two teams and the Crimson should...
...board, located on the third floor, may be used by all members of the University. Students whose home addresses are outside of Cambridge may register at this board and have their records transferred to their hometown draft officers...
...boyhood haunts in Port Arthur, Ont, Irish emotions welled up in the 66-year-old father of the documentary film, Robert (Nanook of the North) Flaherty: "It's very sad for me; most of my pals are gone, we're in another age." Also back in his hometown (Aspen, Colo.), shock-headed New Yorker Editor Harold Ross said that he hoped to clear up a mystery: "My mother always told me that [I was born] on the day Grover Cleveland was elected. But I've never been able to figure out why they'd have...