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Poor health and the Cox catastrophe relegated F. D. Roosevelt to the comparative seclusion of Long Island. But he is no longer an invalid. " See young Roosevelt about it" was once a byword in Washington, as it now is in the World of Construction, our second-biggest industry...
...reason for this is to be sought in the turning of newer composers of Italy from the traditional operatic form to symphonic music. Certainly there is a recent great increase in the demand?in America at least?for Italian orchestral compositions. Italian symphonic music was for centuries a byword for insignificance, but the new modernists of the peninsula are pushing forward at a great rate. Many of the copyrights on their works, however, are held by German and Austrian publishers, since Italian publishers have generally regarded symphonic publications as a loss of money...
...Royal Mail Steam Packet Company operates the largest steamer, the "Araguya", plying between New York and Bermuda. The ship is a palatial liner of seventeen thousand five hundred tons displacement and the luxurious appointments of the ship are a byword with travellers...
...Royal Mail Steam Packet Company operates the largest steamer, the "Araguya", playing between New York and Bermuda. The ship is a palatial liner of seventeen thousand five hundred tons displacement and the luxurious appointments of the ship are a byword with travellers...
...operation is the byword of a successful business venture; without it the best of projects will fail. So it is with success in football. An enthusiastic cheering section, well drilled in their songs and cheers, is of tremendous value to a team; indifference in the stands leads to defeat on the field. Our co-operation this year has been most lamentable. Ignorance of the songs and cheers, together with that all-too-evident Harvard indifference, is the foundation of our early-season faults. Thursday is the night to learn the songs and cheers. The Union must be crowded...