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Word: fields (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trying to make a symphony orchestra out of my band. Why is it that every reporter annoys me with that same question? Jazz is my field. I only wish the symphonies would stay on their side of the fence. They're even writing symphony scores with saxophone parts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "American Jazz" a Distinct International Idiom in the Opinion of Paul Whiteman--Band Will Enter the Movies | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...valuable and unique donations of Baron von Stael-Holstein to the Harvard collections as described in the news columns of this morning's CRIMSON, have an especial significance in that they enrich the shelves and panels of Widener and Fogg in a field which is comparatively untouched. Harvard is not alone in this; Oriental religion and literature is a book that a variety of influences have succeeded in keeping very nearly closed to the Occident. This gift is not the first sign that indicates Harvard, at least, is on the way to correcting the omission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUT OF THE EAST | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Signs are not wanting to indicate that the barrier is on the verge of yielding to the assaults of Western penetration. Yale-in-China is a well established organization, and with the founding last year of the Harvard Yenching Institute, Harvard made an official entry into the field. It is symbolic of the present lack of knowledge of things Oriental that probably few Harvard students are aware of the fact that four of the most distinguished Sinologists in the world are now working in the University under the auspices of this organization. The gift of Baron von Stael-Holstein will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUT OF THE EAST | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...mansion of President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia for a buffet lunch. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was there. President Coolidge twitted Governor Byrd about a cartoon in the Richmond Times-Dispatch which showed a Southern.Colonel peering through a knothole in the fence of a football field. A sign on the fence said: "Football, Thanksgiving Day-University of Virginia (Rep.) vs. University of North Carolina (Rep.)-President Coolidge (Rep.) will attend." The Colonel's companion was asking: "See any Democrats, Colonel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Skunked | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...University team is one of the five teams in Class A. according to the officials of the Boston Indoor Polo League. The four other teams are the one hundred first Field Artillery, Danvers, one hundred tenth Cavalry, and the National Lancers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDOOR POLO MATCHES BEGIN ON DECEMBER 15 | 12/8/1928 | See Source »

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