Word: reading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Academy of Sciences of the Rumanian People's Republic, in collaboration with the Rumanian Soviet Scientific Institute, will hold a symposium on the scientific achievements of Joseph Stalin, occasioned by the Generalissimo's forthcoming 70th birthday. Papers are to be read on the following subjects...
...Kostov would not play. When charges of espionage and treason were read to him, he cried: "It is not true!" Stunned, the presiding judge asked Rostov if he repudiated his earlier confession. "Yes, I do," said Rostov quietly...
After this action the reviser of the Council's "Rules," Frederic D. Houghteling '50, read a proposal advocating the prohibition of discriminatory membership clauses in undergraduate organizations...
...20th Century U.S. hotel life. In the U.S., more than any other country, the big hotel has become a city in itself. There, says Hilton, "you could live out a full life without ever going out of doors. They have nightclubs, banquet halls and shopping centers. You can read a book in the library and use the safe deposit vault as a bank. If you get sick, there's a hospital, with a doctor and a nurse. You can park your car, eat your head off and sleep till noon. Home was never like that...
...vast store of nervous energy makes it impossible for him to sit still long enough to read anything but business reports. Even while dictating he usually swings a No. 3 iron at imaginary golf balls. At 62, he is still willing to try almost anything once. At Sun Valley, not long ago, he spotted "Prince" Mike Romanoff, the Hollywood restaurateur, on skis, and promptly declared: "If Romanoff can do it, so can I." Soon Hilton was snowplow-ing down the beginners' slope...