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...their first fiscal year, the 100-odd grateful Rio tenants had confirmed the gloomiest predictions, lost $25,712 reviving the run-down land. In February 1943, FSA Assistant Regional Director W. A. Canon, who had envisioned the project and almost singlehandedly set it going, called in big, capable FSAman Sam D. Tayloe to manage the farms. Tayloe quit FSA to take the job. Almost immediately, things began to improve...
...good Roman Catholic take part in community interfaith ventures? Yes, says the canon law of the church-if his bishop or archbishop approves...
...last week Sumer is icumen in had been regarded by music historians as both the oldest six-part song and the oldest canon* in existence. But its date, set by 19th-Century historians as around 1240, had always made it something of a historical curiosity, since no music even remotely resembling it appeared anywhere else until about a century later...
...time. He also noted that the type of musical notation in which Sumer is icumen in was written was not in use in England until nearly a century later. Upshot: Sumer is icumen in dates from about 1310, is still the oldest six-part song, but not the oldest canon. It is still the oldest popular song...
...canon, or "round," is a composition in which different voices sing the same tune starting at different times, e.g., Three Blind Mice...