Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approve promotions and appointments of three years or more in University teaching and administrative departments, the Board of Overseers held its first meeting yesterday. At the three remaining meetings in November, January and April the group will hear reports from visiting committees...
...Lord Runciman wrote that in his opinion and "in the opinion of the more responsible Sudeten leaders" the concessions offered on September 6 as the famed Plan No. 4 could be considered virtually full acceptance of those demands which provoked the Czechoslovak crisis, namely the Karlsbad Demands made last April 24 by the Sudeten "Little Führer," Konrad Henlein...
Thus bitterly did grey, puttery Charles Edgar Duryea, acknowledged father of the U.S. automobile, sum up his career a few years back. On April 19, 1892 he first scooted his pace-setting gasoline buggy along leafy Taylor Street in Springfield, Mass, to give the four-billion-dollar automobile industry its first real push. His contraption was pretty primitive. It grew out of a love for horses ("Think of it. We have no tails to dock, no checkreins, no whips, no blinders, no sore backs") and at one stage in the gasoline buggy's development he even considered building...
Compared with such recent books of documentary photographs as Archibald MacLeish's Land of the Free (TIME, April 25), Evans' selection in his own book is many-sided, disinterested, clinical. The photographs are uncaptioned yet arranged to be looked at in order. In each the camera has caught the essential moment, memorized in detail some significant things: the early morning light on hundreds of back yards in an industrial city; four sour people on a Bronx bench on Sunday; a pompous Legionnaire with waxed mustaches, looking brave...
Eight concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be given in Sanders Theatre on Thursday evenings, October 13, November 3, November 24, December 15, 1938, and January 12, February 16, March 16, and April 27, 1939. The price of tickets for the series...