Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maria Jeritza will no longer sing with the company. Mr. Gatti has had to cut his cloth to fit a season one-third shorter than usual. Jeritza and 26 others whose contracts expired have been dropped from the roster. Tenor Beniamino Gigli had a long-term contract but he chose to leave rather than accept less money (TIME...
...distinguished successor. Two months ago University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton, Nobel Prize physicist, was reported to have declined the post (TIME, March 21). The Princeton trustees have been meeting fortnightly in an effort to agree on some one else. Last week, their quest still unsuccessful, they chose one of their own number to be acting president. He was Edward Dickinson Duffield, bulky president of Prudential Insurance Co., super-loyal Princeton alumnus. He will direct Princeton's affairs as long as may be necessary until a permanent president is picked...
...unpalatable coffee, but they sang with a verve derogatory ditties about the police and patriots. The pinch of hunger had wizened their faces and made them look four or five years older than they were, but it had left their spirits free for the hatreds which the organizers chose to sow. This is the sketch which a college graduate living among the miners draws in the July Forum...
Germany's touted Lilian Harvey is a gay open-faced little girl (85 lb., 5 ft. 1 in.) who is willing to make faces and can dance. She is 23, born in Muswell Hill, a London suburb, of a German father and English mother. Her parents chose May 1914 to go to Germany for a vacation. She has since lived in Central Europe, studied dancing under Mary Zimmerman, was discovered in Vienna by German Cinema Director Richard Eichberg...
...most important change in the Law School curriculum for next year is the reduction of the number of options open to second-year students. At present, second-year men may chose six courses from a group of nine, but beginning next year, Insurance and Persons will be open only to third year men, leaving seven courses, from which second year students must choose six. There have been no options open to first year men since...