Word: debut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Florence, Italy, last week press-agented with folio upon folio on the City of Flowers, on its musical heritage stretched to include Dante, Michelangelo & Amerigo Vespucci, came the Florentine Polyphonic Choir, gave its debut concert* in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan...
Ever since his debut upon the stage o" the world; the Vagabond has suffered from the handicap of an innocent and benign exterior. Old gentlemen used to pat him on the head in public places, and kind relatives used to supply him with constant provender, the gentlemen with buffalo nickels, and the ladies with peppermints. A utilitarian even at his early age, the Vagabond would persist in harmonizing his actions with his appearance, to his immense material profit and moral advantage in times of stress...
...Boomerang, Tea for Three. During the past year he has been on the road with his daughter, Kate, who makes her Manhattan debut in this play, in order to give her more experience...
...contrast to the advent of the Freshman, the upperclassman arrives in Cambridge officially unnoticed. He has put aside the buoymant brightness of the youths who, making their college debut, are full of hope for the four golden years. He betrays no interest in the novelty of his surroundings. He has long outgrown the state of credulity that indicates inward illusions and is peculiarly attractive to book-agents and purveyors of pressing contracts. The upperclassmen returning passes through the Square unremarked. He belongs in it, for another year at least, like the Pill...
...plan was successful, and has been extended and adopted with various ramifications in most of the departments of undergraduate study. With the introduction of the experiment into the Division of Biology last year, the tutorial system made its debut in the scientific field. Physics and Chemistry are the lone departments not yet in the tutorial fold...