Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the lengthening shadow cast by the huge new Chemistry Laboratory as it nears completion come the pleas of the kindred departments of Zoology, Botany, and Physiology where the equipment and building are quite as inadequate as the facilities in Boylston Hall. In a letter in the current Alumni Bulletin Dr. Parker acknowledges that the recent reports of conditions in the Department of Biology have not been overdrawn, and describes the efforts that are being made to remedy the situation. The Departments of Zoology and Botany, he reports, have increased ten-fold in sizee, both in the number of students...
...this production Miss Anglin will be supported by the regular New York Metropolitan Opera House cast and orchestra, which will be under the direction of Charles Paul...
...place Candidate Lowden in nomination. Delegate (Mrs.) Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter of the late famed G. 0. Politician Mark Hanna, said she had accepted the honor of seconding Delegate Glenn's motion. Other notable daughters were to be present-Mrs. Leona Knight of Providence, R. I., to cast at least one vote for her father, Candidate Curtis of Kansas; Sarah Schuyler Butler, daughter of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University (he, too, is a delegate), to follow the lead of National Committeeman Charles D. Hilles in trying to "draft-Coolidge"; President Roosevelt's daughter Alice (wife...
...Augustine, Fla., sped an automobile excitedly tooting and towing a fantastic bicycle. Fourteen-foot wings flapped great currents of air on either side of it. Flushed, intense, George White sat optimistically astride his invention. He pedalled furiously to force the wings to a rate of 100 flaps per minute, cast off from the car, rose gracefully in air. Like some prehistoric monster, the ornithopter, wings glistening in sunlight, described a gigantic parabola and came, back to earth. It had traveled eight-tenths of a mile in one minute and 36 seconds (rate of 30 m.p.h...
...them it is needless to address any remarks. It is to the uninitiated that a word may be wise. In this production one gets a glimpse of what can be done with a piece if it is intelligently produced. Mr. Ames has spared on trouble or cost with the cast and the staging. The favorites of last year are back, and again the same spirit of general good humore runs through the show. You feel all the time that the cast is having as good a time as you are--perhaps--better, although that is hard to understand. The sets...