Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera stars who come to hear him. The voice can become gutty as a trumpet, musky with melancholy, or high and tremulous as a flute. It may take on the high, clipped inflection of the West Indies, the open-throated drawl of the bayou country, the softly rounded burr of the Scotch borderland...
...debate of the resolution; "That this house thanks God for the Atlantic," was to have been transmitted live from Allston Burr Lecture Hall at 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Tentative plans have been made to hold the debate after the cable is repaired...
About 100 spectators had gathered in Burr B by 4:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon when radio operators expected to establish immediate contact with the Cambridge group. By 5 p.m. however, the Harvard technicians were still unable to reach their Cambridge counterparts over the BBC network because of continuous sunspot interference. Ten minutes later all hope of running the debate was abandoned...
...team from the College will be seen in Burr Lecture Hall B and heard over radio station WGBH-FM at 5 p.m. Those attending are asked to arrive...
Commandant Jacques Y. Cousteau, inventor of the aqualung and famed deep sea diver, will give an illustrated lecture on "The Potentials of Undersea Exploration" tonight at 8 p.m. in Burr Lecture Hall B. Cousteau, author of "The Silent World," is Director of the Oceanographic Institute in Monaco. He also invented a two-man submarine which can descend over half a mile...