Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dumb, for they lack vocal.cords. The vocal cords are two short bands of muscles that cross the larynx. In breathing air passes between the cords. To make sounds, the cords assume varying tensions; the passing air makes them vibrate; vowel sounds result: the palate acts as a sounding board, the mouth as a resonance chamber. In talking the palate, tongue, teeth and lips modify vocal sounds into speech...
...House, Two years ago, Chairman Otto Kahn of the Opera Board, bought a plot on 57th Street, paid, it is said, $3,000,000 for it offered it to the Metropolitan for just what he paid. Last spring the site was seemingly approved: Architects Benjamin Wistar Morris and Joseph Urban were appointed. The New house was promised for the season 1928-29. But the recent publication of Architect Urban's ideas by Editor Deems Taylor of Musical America brought the announcement that no site had been decided on, no plans approved. A committee of five trustees?R. Fulton Cutting, John...
...Young Men's Christian Association's general board, at Chicago last week, announced that for the first time membership in the more than 1,600 Canadian and U. S. organizations has surpassed one million...
...replace him as dean of the Princeton Graduate School, the trustees last week chose Lieut.-Col Augustus Trowbridge, Princeton professor of physics from 1906 to 1924. For the past three years he has been adviser to the International Education Board in appropriating money to develop scientific research in European institutions. Last week he was in Paris...
...Judge Gary to conclude his ritual lecture by saying: "Gentlemen, the meeting is now in your hands. Whom do you want to hear from?" The answer was always the roar: "Charlie!" The judge and all others present knew that the "Charlie" was for Charles Michael Schwab, Chairman of the Board of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. But Judge Gary was dead two months (TIME, Aug. 22). He could not prime the iron & steel men's cheers for "Charlie." There was no need. In Judge Gary's old chair sat Mr. Schwab himself, elected last week President of the American...