Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...singing of "Fair Harvard" closed the ceremonies
Profits. "It is essential in our economy that private funds must be put to work and all of us recognize that such funds are entitled to a fair profit...
...baseball managers try to outbid one another for fine pitchers and hitters, so orchestral managers try to outbid one another for champion piccolo players and contrabassoonists. The violin and the cello are commonly placed among the noblest of musical instruments, but good violinists and cellists bring only a fair figure (average salary: about $80 a week). Most strenuous bidding frequently takes place over first-class oboists and horn players. Fiddlers are the symphonic world's plentiful proletariat. But fine horn players are rarer than fine conductors, and often make a bigger difference to the sound of an orchestra...
...spring trips, the one most justified is that of the major sport baseball, regardless of the number of games washed out; and the lacrosse tour also is undoubtedly a help to the team. Whether or not the expense of this extra training is fair in view of the financial difficulties of he other minor sports is another question. No excuse can be found for the money spent on the tennis junket, however, for year in and year out a large percentage of the matches have to be cancelled. It would be best to drop this trip altogether and sink...
Fortunately, "The Women," presented by Max Gordon at the Colonial, is not the cross-section of American womanhood that many claim it to be. It is good, not particularly clean, comedy. Embracing a cast of forty women and presenting the thesis that the fair sex has just one thing on its mind, the play tries more to amuse than convince...