Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be the first appearance in Boston of Arthur Honegger's symphonic psalm which previously has been so successful in other musical centers as to create a greater demand for this form of contemporary choral music...
...Many a trader had been bearish, gambling on the probabilities that prices would fall. Of this, shrewd men laden with money were fully aware. They bought stocks and in such quantities that the bears could not supply. Shares of the Radio Corporation of America were particularly and peculiarly in demand. One Michael J. Meehan, Manhattan broker, bought and sold them for Arthur W. Cutten of Chicago and the Fisher brothers of Detroit, who managed a sort of corner in R.C.A. stock. Its price, consequently, rose $30 in the week. Prices of other stocks rose correspondingly. When the week ended, members...
...that day that the play was to be honored by the presence of the President. Mr. Polkinhoru, manager of the theatre, immdiately asked the printer to alter the bill and to add a patriotic verse. This was impossible, but some playbills were changed to suit the manager's demand, and of these several reprints have been made. All the steps in the changing of this bill are shown in the collection. Two copies of the playbills distributed in the theatre the night of the assassination are in the collection, and are exceedingly rare...
Such consideration might once have been of importance, but after years of experimentation there seems to be developing a definite American system that is fitted to meet the unusual conditions produced by a well nigh universal demand for higher education. President Lowell has stated several times that Harvard is not working towards the organization of Oxford and Cambridge as a goal when it adopts certain of their features, but will make use only of those things that seem adaptable. The same applies to the other institutions of Europe. The older universities will retain for some time the attractions...
...music throughout it distinctly tuneful, and considerably above the average of the usual offerings. On the whole, by no means an exciting evening, but a pleasant one. In spite of the camouflaging effects of crinolines, the chorus established itself as one of the most restful the eye could demand...