Word: borning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...genteel 18th Century into which it was born, Pittsburgh was the essence of a frontier culture, which it has never quite managed to shake. In recent years it has been jeeringly called an esthetic abortion, a municipal hovel, a mining town on a vast scale. It gobbled up people the way it gobbled up iron ore-people with the names of Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Italy, Hungary, Yugoslavia. Some 1,000,000 of them lived and worked in the city's whole industrial complex, some 700,000 lived within the city's limits...
...Britt was born in Indiana and attended Detroit University. He has not seen Yale this year. Just why he represented Yale is still unclear, except that he may have as large an appetite, if not so keen a wit, as Herman Hickman...
...Born in Adelaide, Australia, Professor Mayo was graduated in 1899 from Adelaide University, receiving a Master of Arts degree there in 1917. In 1942, he received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Harvard...
...older players, men who for the most part had given up music until 1943, when Ory put them together for a West Coast tour. These four sides, cut in 1947, are fine examples of a Dixieland that even the purists will like; yet neither old age-Edward Ory was born in 1889-nor an old style can make these records dated...
Prior to coming to Harvard, Clark was assistant to the Director of Personnel for Rockefeller Center Inc., in New York. He was born in Greenwich, Conn., graduated from New Canaan High School in New Canaan, Conn., and was a member of the Class of 1940 at Dartmouth College. He was a Captain in the Infantry in World War II and saw service in the Philippine Islands and Japan...