Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State turned his head slowly from one interrogator to another, his slightly bulging, frosty eyes looking down an impressive, beaklike nose. His expression hardly changed, except to break occasionally into a fleeting wry smile. He handled the press conference delicately, parrying questions, articulating carefully in his cornetlike voice...
Cornell, which has a fair average of .500 in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball, plays host to Harvard, which has no EIBL record at all except a string of zeros, in a basketball contest tonight at Ithaca...
Every team except the track squad will open with Southern trips during spring vacations. Jaakko Mikkola's out-door runners have their first meet against Boston College on April...
...They argue that if the doctrine of federal "paramount rights" can lead to the government taking over ownership of what was considered state property, then carried to its logical conclusion paramount rights might be used to seize any state property. The federal government, however, denies any right to anything except the marginal sea area...
...Violin Sonata. The dry-tang texture of the first movement, caused by the conflict of harmonies between violin and piano, combines with the many melodies to give a very striking effect. Perhaps the finest moment in the piece comes in the carefully built-up climax of the second movement. Except for a few scattered parts, the writing throughout the Sonata is tight; the piece never seems too long for its contents. My only objection is to some of the bowing effects in the first movement, which don't really seem to belong. The performance by Norma Bertolami Sapp and Joseph...