Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humming Lehar's "Dein ist Mein Ganzes Hertz." In Act II, however, the affair becomes less idyllic. Miss Best tries to poison her husband while Mr. Rathbone is away on a concert tour. Detected by a doctor, she jumps into the most valuable body of water in the dramatists' atlas, the Seine. From this point on, Melo flags and falters. There is a tableau vivant around the dead woman's grave, followed by a long-winded scene at the violinist's home where the husband tries to get Mr. Rathbone to admit his philandering. Melo ends on an unclear...
...Grandgent '19, member of the committee for the compilation of the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada, will aid in the active work to be commenced this summer with Yale as headquarters...
...This atlas was first suggested by Professor E. S. Sturtevant of Yale. At the invitation of the American Council of Learned Societies a group of scholars met at Yale two years ago to consider the plan. Within the next two years the work for Southern New England is expected to be completed. A questionnaire has been prepared through which field workers will collect characteristic facts of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, to establish dialectic differences. In addition speech records will be taken...
...week. "I am here to speak or lecture at a place called Buffalo, prominent for its bootleggers. Then I will speak at Toledo, a place full of crooks chased out of Chicago. Third, I will lecture at Urbana, Ill., a place I couldn't find on my $12 atlas...
...Atlas Powder...