Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orchestra will open the concert with Ravel's suite "Le Tombeau de Couperin," to be followed by Schumann's Symphony No. 4 in D Miner, the four movements of which will be played through without a pause. After the intermission the program will be concluded by the famous Fifth Symphony of Beethoven. Admission will...
Richard T. Cassidy '35, of Marblehead--Susan Anthony Potter Prize of $75, open to undergraduates for the best essay on a subject dealing with the Spanish literature of the Golden Age, entitled "Antonie Hurtado de Mendoza: his Life and Works...
Sympathy for the Switzes, strong when they were supposed to be undergoing a French third degree, evaporated as Mrs. Switz appeared hard and swank in a costume from the Rue de la Paix and Mr. Switz slouched in the witness chair, reeling off sums of money which he said he paid to spies. Said the Switzes: "We did it all for France." Thus far their peaching has been valuable enough to bring them definite assurances that they will merely be deported...
...dawn that day in a misty Berlin prison courtyard two cringing figures in suits of coarse sacking were led out, their hands chained behind their backs. Headsman August Gröber, 67 and spry for his age, advanced in impeccable full dress exuding Eau de Cologne. An artist, as are all great executioners, Gröber keeps his blade on ice until the last second, figures that blood has a tendency to congeal on an iced blade and hence will not spout on his boiled shirt. Swish-clump! Swish-clump!-two heads rolled in the sand. One of them, declared...
...press received GE's metal tube cordially, spoke of the first "radical change" since Lee de Forest bobbed up with the three-element audion tube in 1907. Far from cordial was Philco Radio & Television Corp., which has small esteem for metal tubes and no stomach whatever for a possible public swing in that direction. Philco bought a full page in the New York Times ($4,500) to launch a counterblast. Recalling an ill-starred experiment with metal tubes in Britain, Philco warned that a "pell mell rush" into metal might also have disastrous consequences here. Points...