Word: col
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Firebird was no novelty to the U.S. The Col. de Basil company toured it in the '40s, and George Balanchine's New York City Ballet has done a shortened version -carefully avoiding such delicacies as the soul-in-the-egg. The Sadler's Wells version was faithful to the original choreography of 1910. In fact, it captured the old spirit so well that the once-daring Stravinsky music began to sound just like Mussorgsky with wrong notes...
Pusey spoke tonight at a special convocation at Williams College in observance of the 200th anniversary of the death of Col. Ephraim Williams, the founder of the school. He also received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from James P. Baxter, president of Williams...
...approving the third point in the plan, however, the Army allowed the College to change its present ROTC curriculum. Col. Trevor N. Dupuy, professor of Military Science and Tacties, has announced that Military Sciences 1b, 2b, and 4b have been so altered that civilian students may take them for credit...
...laugh. He assured his listeners that he had not fired the piece in years, that he kept it in the drawer of his bedside table in Washington, that he was unfailingly careful to get a permit once a year. The Secretary's permit read: "Age: 67; Col.: white; Physical marks . . . Mixed grey hair. Eye glasses...
...ocean-bottom mud, prove that the climate of Europe in Hannibal's time was slightly warmer than it is today. This being the case, only the pass of Traversette, 10,000 feet high, could have plagued Hannibal's elephants with old snow. Sir Gavin investigated the Col de la Traversette and found that it contained, in just the right spot, a large, flat rock like the one where Hannibal camped near the top of his climb...