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Word: doings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The number of minor sports in which class teams do not exist is doubtless in proportion to contemporary interest in those sports. Nevertheless failure to establish such teams is a direct contradiction to any policy of general physical training. Tournaments in wrestling, boxing, squash, create at best a rather unenduring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SOUND BODY | 12/18/1928 | See Source »

Christmas-time has always been the time for singing. The Yule festivities have changed from country to country and from century to century, but song has always had a part in them. Whether it is unconscious echo of the song of the angels over Bethlehem, or because music is the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOD REST YE-- | 12/18/1928 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the stocks do not rise.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Rich Man, Poor Man. . . . | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Great prima donnas usually do their singing in great cities, where great crowds besiege the box office for the privilege of hearing great music. Ganna Walska, different, opened a concert tour last week in the Central High School Auditorium at Binghamton, N. Y. This caused Critic Martha Wheatley in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Binghamton, Walska | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

"Some came to doubt and remained to marvel at the will to do, on the part of this extraordinary woman. Some were frankly puzzled, yet duly appreciative of the pictorial impressiveness offered by the singer. None was enthusiastic over her vocal attainment; yet the audience, as a whole, paid tribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Binghamton, Walska | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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