Word: beene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edward L. Croman '60, president, termed the approval of the library report "merely formal" since most of the committee's proposals have already been adopted by Lamont officials.
Schumann's Konzertstueck for four horns and orchestra, Op. 86, was another sort of problem, for while it was good to hear this interesting, energetic piece, it was plain that the supremely confident soloists required had not been found, the horn being a notoriously intractable beast. There was volume, but...
A gift of nearly $1.5 million has been given the University for studies in Forestry and Neurology. The funds, from the estate of the late Katherine E. Bullard, will provide for a new professorship in Forestry and research in both Forestry and Neurology.
The textile experts said it was folly: garment factories could never flourish in Hong Kong because of lack of water and trained workers. Besides, there was the powerful new force of Japanese competition. But Chen Che Lee, a wealthy young Shanghai cotton manufacturer, fooled the experts. In 1946, with $1...
Hong Kong has been greatly helped by U.S. opposition to low-priced Japanese cotton imports. When the Japanese were forced to diversify and impose voluntary quotas, many big U.S. department-and variety-store buyers took their business to Hong Kong. The British colony's factories and sweatshops have tripled...