Word: alto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best composition in concerted vocal music. The competition for this prize is open to undergraduates and to members of any graduate school of the University. The composition shall be written in four voices (soprano alto, tenor, and bass), for chorus, with or without solo voices, and with organ or piano accompaniment; and the time required for its performances must not exceed six minutes. The words shall be either English or Latin, religious or secular, original or selected. The prize composition will be performed in the College Chapel, with chorus and organ. The compositions must be submitted to the Chairman...
...Earth to Burst? Old Dr. Bailey Willis, 78, of Palo Alto, who loves to scare the wits out of "seismophobic" Southern Californians, presented a picture of Earth's history and structure which disquieted many a long-range imagination. The Earth, Dr. Willis suggested, originally was an aggregation of cold substances which gravitation pulled into a tight little planetary mass somewhere between 50 million and two billion years ago. Ever since, radioactive elements in Earth's material have been driving energy towards its centre until today the core of Earth is a hot fluid mass of iron, nickel, radium and other...
...story, with Anderson and Draper each claiming a 21 second flat race, and Pollock has a 21.2 time credited to him in the furlough. The best time in the East this season is the 21.7 made by Scallan of Cornell. In the 400 meter run, Blackman of the Polo Alto school, and McCarthy of U. S. C. have both done 47.9, and Cassin, also of the Trojans has done 48 fiat, LuValle former University of California at Los Angeles, who holds the IC4A record at 46.9 will compete this year, but is not expected to win Saturday because...
...interest the legislating gentlemen assembled now in Sacramento to know that the minute the proposed State Income Tax becomes law, my wife, Kathleen Norris, and myself will put both our homes-the one in Palo Alto and our ranch near Saratoga-up for sale and move out of the State. There is no alternative for us. We pay 52% of our income now to the Federal Government at Washington and under the proposed State Income Tax Law, we shall have to pay an additional 18%, so that out of every dollar we earn from our writings, 70? will...
...Herbert Hoover entered their Norwegian elkhound "Weegie" in the pet parade of Palo Alto's Spring Festival...