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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-union group in the hotel and club industry and the tactics of the Harvard Club in the current dispute leave little question that an attempt is being made to break the union. It seems to me a disgrace to the College that an organization affiliated with it should act as spearhead in such a movement or should insist on its God-given right to pay as little as 60 cents an hour for human labor in a city where wage rates and the cost of living are the highest in the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Analyzes Harvard Club Strike | 4/10/1948 | See Source »

...statement of the first undergraduate tuition hike in two decades followed a meeting of the Corporation yesterday to act on an estimated Faculty of Arts and Sciences deficit of $750,000 for the next academic year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College, Grad School, 'Cliffe Up Annual Tuition to $525 | 4/7/1948 | See Source »

...also wants to do "something worth while." So far, he has composed music for a one-act ballet, a rhapsody for violin and orchestra. Adds André: "There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From Sink to Success | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Bois. Bear-like Composer Claude Debussy ambled in, sat down at a piano with his back to her. "You are Mlle. Teyte?" "Yes, sir." "You are Mlle. Teyte-of the Opéra-Comique?" "Yes, sir." "Eh bien, we will start here." Before they had run through the first act of his one & only opera Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy hustled out to shout to his wife, "Here is a Mèlisande...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ogre's Opera | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Other Ivy colleges to act with the University in withdrawing men who had already been named as delegates to the forthcoming convocation included Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and Columbia. They acted at the same time, following the lead of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Withdraws Delegate to Prague | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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