Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issues immediately before and after the first of the year he learned that there had been three prominent entries for place as man of the year with strong boosters for each of them. There was Cleopatra, who it would seem was a woman of unusual charm; there was her boy friend, Mark Antony, so fascinated by her that he was neglecting affairs of public business to woo her; and there was one Novresibus, an officeholder who had just been re-elected in a landslide in which he had received 99 & 44/100 percent of the votes in his district the preceding...
...Budapest choristers' songs ranged from the latest works of Hungarian moderns to old folksongs about the Virgin, a farmer boy. a mourning dove. They sang them all in Hungarian, showing a meticulous concern for every phrase. Auditors marveled at the chorus's pitch and perfect time, the way it negotiated the most intricate part-singing without a slip...
When Webster was 13, his father left the Conservatory to take the whole family abroad. The boy was placed under the famous Pianist-Teacher Isidor Philipp, first at the American Academy at Fontainebleau, three years later at Paris Conservatory of Music. At 18, he won first prize in the Conservatory's piano competition, is still the only U. S. pianist who can boast that honor...
...economics and mining engineering. Fore seeing the expansion of electrical power, he made up his mind to get rich in copper. Charles Hayden proposed to do so not by mining copper but by speculating in copper. Year after graduation he took a $3-a-week job as a "ticker boy" to learn the inside of a broker's office. At 21 he was ready to borrow $20,000 from his father, launch his own brokerage business with his officemate Galen L. Stone, whose Milk Street friends put up another $20,000. Hayden, Stone & Co.'s shrewd "market letter...
...this season, the team has had no acid test, winning both the Green wood Men's Club and Providence Boy's Club meets with the greatest of ease, and the annual Alumni obstacle also caused no difficulty. According to Ulen, these encounters served primarily to give him an idea who's who and what's what; and in general, the squad's performance was very encouraging. Several facts with a slightly pessimistic hue, however, were forcibly revealed...