Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard are very infrequent, it is unfortunate that the orchestra was not up to form in its concert last Wednesday evening. The Pierian is rally a much better group than it appeared to be in this concert, and it is too bad that its only impression this year (except for a concert with the Radcliffe orchestra and chorus in the Fall, and its recent Pops Concert at Adams House) should not be a good one. It is even more regrettable that this orchestra, which plays programs outstanding in originality and variety of selection, should have so little part in music...
...situation is much the same in the case of the Glee Club. Though it is well known throughout New England, its appearances at Harvard, except in joint performances, are extremely rare, the only regular concerts here being the rather haphazard Spring Yard concerts...
Early this year, turned down by the Standing Committee of Correspondents that controls admission to the galleries, he took the case to the Senate and House Rules Committees, arguing that radio handles news just as newspapers do except for printing it and charging people for it, and that excluding radio from the press galleries was in effect giving special privilege to the printing trades. In the Senate New Jersey's Barbour and Iowa's Gillette, and in the House New Mexico's Jack Dempsey pressed his case. By last week both Rules Committees had decreed that henceforth...
...when its co-chairmen-suave Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes (North), slight Bishop John Monroe Moore (South), Dr. James H. Straughn (Methodist Protestant)-said simultaneously: "This we do reverently in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." The unison would have been perfect except that Bishop Moore said "Holy Ghost...
Japan has several lumbering German-made rolling mills of the type outmoded by the U. S. continuous strip process, and it has one 43-in. continuous hot and cold strip mill (not yet operating) sold it by United and Mesta Machine. But it has no way, except by U. S. purchase, of replacing any parts in this continuous mill or of building another. In theory, its new purchase from United will end some of these deficiencies. Actually Japan will still depend upon the U. S. for tailor-made ball bearings and high-grade forgings which are beyond Japanese imitative technology...