Word: containers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialist," a new fortnightly publication that will contain feature articles, editorials and news-stories of intercollegiate interest and which will from time to time carry articles by such men as Norman Thomas, Heywood Broun, and Dr. Laidler, will make its first appearance in Harvard Square on Thursday morning. The paper is being sponsored directly by the Harvard Socialist Club and the Young People's Socialist League of New England, and, indirectly by the League for Industrial Democracy of New York of which the Harvard Socialist Club is an affiliated chapter...
...early this month Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, crusading civic leader, was advised by his doctor not to preach his scheduled sermon. He asked Norman Thomas, Socialist Congressional candidate and scandal-flayer, to speak for him. After Speaker Thomas had finished describing the city's condition, Rabbi Wise could contain himself no longer. He rose up and castigated Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker's regime in these terms: "I charge the men of large affairs in New York with lack of concern touching the welfare of their city. New York has no political, let alone moral, leadership. . . . What...
...litres (one-half gal.) of 4% beer every hour to become intoxicated. "General experience shows," amended Pedagog Yandell, "that few persons care to drink two litres in an hour. Under my definition [that 80 cc. of alcohol can be absorbed in the system in one hour], therefore, beer containing 3% or 4% of alcohol by volume is not intoxicating." "A cordial or liqueur," he continued, "such as curagao or benedictine, although it may contain 50% of alcohol, is not intoxicating, for in common practice such beverages are consumed only in very small amounts. But whiskey, gin or rum, having approximately...
...award the prize. He gave it to Pablo Ruiz Picasso's calm masterly portrait of Mme Picasso. The other judges: Glyn Philpot of Britain; Karl Sterrer, Austria; Bernard Karfiol, Horatio Walker, Ross Moffett, U. S., made no objection. Most critics' lists of the ten greatest living painters contain both Picasso and Ma-tisse...
Preeminent will be the Beethoven Seventh symphony in A major which exemplifies much of the Bonn master's power of orchestration. While it does not contain the majestic sweep of the Fifth or the magnitude of the Ninth it does carry the unmistakable seal of his genius for contrast, counter-point, and imitation...