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Word: de (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian Ambassador, Signer Nobile Giacomo de Martino, with 60 countrymen, members of the Vatican Choir. The latter presented the President first with a collection of copper engravings of Vatican paintings, encased in tooled leather; second, with singing at the White House steps. Mrs. Coolidge listened from an upper window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...that U. S. poets might seize this news as a theme with a classic precedent. The classic precedent, however, contains an error. The traveler who first stood "silent upon a peak in Darien" was not "stout Cortez" (Hernando Cortez) as sung by Poet John Keats. It was Vasco Nunez De Balboa. Poets celebrating the proposed Roosevelt statue should bear in mind that Darien is an eastern dis- trict of the Republic of Panama, on the Caribbean side. Culebra Hill, upon which the Roosevelt statue will stand silent overlooking the spot where the last dikes were blasted to join ocean with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At Culebra Cut | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...international reputation and the players in the pit are borrowed from the Philadelphia Orchestra. But it has Alexander Smallens for conductor, W. Attmore Robinson for artistic director, men who have refused to be bound by a Verdi-Puccini repertoire. Last year they gave the U. S. premieres of De Falla's El Amor Brujo, of Erich Korngold's Der Ring des Polykrates and critics all over the country pricked up their ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Philadelphia Opera | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...also for the series of lectures to be delivered by noted national authorities on aviation during December. The exhibit and lectures are to be held in conjunction with the study of commercial aviation in the required second year course in Business Policy under the direction of Professor J. A. de Haas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AERONAUTIC SHOW OPENS AT BUSINESS SCHOOL | 12/8/1927 | See Source »

...de Sivigne," Professor Wright, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/8/1927 | See Source »

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