Word: 17th
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...focal point of the traditional installation was the presentation of the insignia identified with Harvard since its establishment in the 17th century. The Charter was the original charter granted by the General Court in 1650, and the Seal was designed in the same year. The earliest Books of college records, dating from 1643, and the Keys were those used in the inauguration of previous presidents...
...Anthony di Bonaventura, 23, whom Sara met in Philadelphia two years ago while he was a music student at Curtis Institute."Her millions don't impress me," he told reporters. Papa and Mama di Bonaventura, who had already entertained the Whitneys at a lasagna dinner in their East 17th Street flat, reported back from a chauffeur-driven visit to the 900-acre Whitney estate in Manhasset, Long Island: "We just had a good time talking and looking around. All very nice people." Mamie Eisenhower, during Spring Week festivities at Brother-in-Law Milton Eisenhower's Pennsylvania State College...
...arrested men turned out to be wealthy conservatives in opposition to Peron's regime. They were hauled off to the 17th precinct station, where the electric needle is one of the approved methods for extracting information. Soon they implicated other Buenos Aires socialites. who apparently thought amateurish bomb-throwing would somehow shake Peron (actually it seems to have strengthened his regime). The cops arrested about 225 other solid Argentine citizens-"oligarchs," the press called them-seizing many plain and fancy weapons (military rifles, big-game guns, nitroglycerin). The police reported that the "oligarchs" had ordered 1,000 identically...
...Byrd Mass was followed by two suites for strings and continue, one by the 17th century English composer John Jenkins and the other by Francois Couperin. The pleasing, simply-constructed movements of the Jenkins were given a graceful rendition by Anne Gombosi, violin; August Wenzinger, a visiting lecturer from Switzerland; Stephen McGhee, viola da gamba and John Dvison, harpsichord. But the Couperin is quite a notch above the Jenkins musically, and Mr. Wenzinger's virtuoso performance further augmented the excellent impression it made. Because of the elaborate ornamental conventions of the period in which it was written, a great part...
Also, Judd D. Hubert and James B. Wadsworth, formerly instructors in French, have been promoted to assistant professors. Wadsworth, whose specialty is the literature of the French and Italian Renaissance, will also be Senior Tutor of Romance Languages. Hubert is an authority on French literature of the 17th century and of the modern period...