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Word: basses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem, too, was to meet the people. He had himself photographed shaking hands with dishwashers and machine-shop foremen, a maneuver he brought off with the hearty air of the big boss at the annual company outing, made up for his rival's helicopter by singing second bass in a quartet with three Yale undergraduates at major public appearances. They sang the Whiffenpoof Song, though some of his backers thought he should shush his Yale connections. He pronounced Bowles (Yale '24) the philosopher of leftism, Senator Brien McMahon (Yale LL.B. '27) the spokesman, and Benton (Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Meet the People | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...band will play Fair Harvard after the game and then march to Dillon Field House to serenade the players. Little Johnny Silver, the band's mascot, will again sit on top of the large bass drum on wheels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Will Speak at Rally; Lions' Band Will Miss Game | 10/6/1950 | See Source »

...perform December 6 and 7 in Sanders Theater, in a program which features the Glee Club singing Bach's Magnificat. Two of the soloists for this performance will be Eunice Alberts, contralto, who opened and closed last summer at Tanglewood with Serge Koussevitsky, and Paul Tibbetts, who sung the bass role in the past two Orchestra-Glee Club performances of the Messiah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-'Cliffe Orchestra Announces 1950-51 Plans | 9/28/1950 | See Source »

Commencement cost the Band its entire first row of clarinets, half the bass section and many first trombonists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biggest' Band Begins Practice; Many Section Leaders Graduate | 9/27/1950 | See Source »

...array of boats. As far as the eye could see there were LSVPs in groups of five making endless circles before the great grey assault ships. Ahead were the cruisers, destroyers and rocket ships. Overhead, Navy and Marine planes streaked for targets ashore. The big guns boomed like tremendous bass drums. The smaller 40-mm. guns hammered away with the incessant roll of snare drums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: For God, For Country, But Not... | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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