Word: beste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johns Hopkins Alfred Shriver bequeathed $650,000 for a lecture hall. Its equipment is to be "the best obtainable in the world," its walls covered with murals painted by "the best available artists." What caused the greatest tongue-wagging in Baltimore since Wallis Warfield bagged a King-Emperor was the stipulation that one mural shall show the famous beauties of Baltimore...
Bach: Toccatas and Fugues for Organ (Carl Weinrich; Musicraft: 8 sides). On a new facsimile Bach-style organ in Princeton, N. J., able Organist Weinrich plays Bach, Bach-style. Careful transcription makes it the best of its kind on records...
What's New (Bing Crosby; Decca). Once more Crooner Crosby illuminates a dull song by singing it as though it were the best he had ever heard...
...could pin no roses on the old-fashioned textbooks, either. Three years ago he investigated old-fashioned upState New York schools for the New York Regents, learned that many of the State's future citizens thought that habeas corpus was a disease, liabilities were assets and poverty was best defined as "the boyhood of great...
...Future of the Social Studies had 17 authors, each of whom proposed a course of study for training citizens. Although no two plans were the same, the authors agreed on many points, e.g.: that the best way to understand the U. S. is to study its regions (such as the Tennessee Valley), that pupils should study causes of World War I, how the British Empire was built, how dictatorships rose, how to make democracy work in the U. S., how to analyze propaganda...