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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, will act as toastmaster. Other speakers will be John L. Saltonstall, Jr. '38, who ran for Congress in the tenth district last fall; Robert Murphy, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts; and Endicott Peabody '42, who sought nomination for attorney-general last summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Butler to Speak At HYDC Dinner | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

Despite a cast containing many of the best singers around Harvard, the Lowell House Opera's production failed either to elevate the play or to do justice to Honegger's score. In the last act there was an inspirational moment suggesting what might have been done with the show: the king asks for some hot chocolate, and the stage is immediately inundated with his entire retinue, led by four flamenco dancers, in a hilarious parody. But this, and a few other isolated touches, were the only light spots in a generally strained evening...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: King Pausole | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

...act as individual missionaries, but our needs require us to be group missionaries," the Dean commented. Rexford J. Moon, Jr., director of the College Scholarship Service, has pointed out that 150,000 capable students from low-income families never attend college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Monro Urges Recruiting Try | 4/8/1959 | See Source »

...find out just how formidable the effects are, London's Dr. E. P. Sharpey-Schafer and California Musician Maurice Faulkner last summer sat down in London. Faulkner huffed his way through several trumpet passages, including a phrase from Wolfram's Song to the Evening Star in Act III of Tannhäuser. In reporting their findings in the British Medical Journal, the researchers noted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Inflated Trumpeter | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...sharply accurate insights-how a man feels when he pointlessly watches a girl on the street, the horribly impersonal service in a funeral parlor almost too antiseptic to admit the image, "dust to dust." Sex itself ends in the kind of disgust that makes both the scene and the act seem like an aspect of earned punishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: So Young, So False | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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