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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newspapers, whose publicity had made a "big shot" out of a sly little hoodlum, could find little that was kind or colorful to write into Diamond's obituary and had to content themselves with smart references to him as the underworld's "clay pigeon." and "ammunition dump." Six months ago the New Yorker counted up his eleven wounds, christened him "Big Shot-at," predicted his early demise...
...Continuance of Finland's present Prohibition law, which since June i, 1919 has banned beverages of more than 2% alcoholic content...
...music of any deep emotional content. Choruses had momentum but little real vitality. The love music was pallid and unaffecting compared with L'Amore, where Fiora forgets even the stalking blind king who she knows is coming to kill her. In a box last week sat Mary Garden, greatest of Fioras, with Signora Montemezzi, whose husband would appear more & more to be a one-opera composer...
...test, but suggested a candidate's Scholastic Aptitude Test score, his school English record, and his English Examination grades be all taken into account in deciding upon his qualifications in English. In regard to the comprehensive examination, the commission recommended a greater variety in both the form and the content of the examination from year to year, but was strongly opposed to adding any objective tests, except with extreme caution...
Questions which will be asked on the paper, will resemble those in the 1930 examination, which contained the following six parts; scientific vocabulary, premedical information, comprehension and retention, visual memory, memory for content, and understanding of printed material. All papers are graded by the committee of the association, and reported in confidence to the deans of all class A medical schools in America...