Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often called to the attention of Harvard men that one of the greatest and most important facilities offered them is a practically unrivaled group of libraries. Having undoubtedly the most comprehensive and complete university library in the world, rating fifth in size even with state institutions, it offers one of the strongest inducements to prospective Harvard students...
...twelvemonth. Last week it was a mere girl-child? scarcely a major victory in the "Battle of the Babes"* which Dictator Mussolini keeps urging all Italian males to fight along with the "Battle of the Grain" (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927, et seq.). When cables flashed news of this latest (fifth) Mussolini offspring, to be called "Anna Maria," observers plotted a battle chart of ages, intervals...
Born. To Benito and Rachele Mussolini; their fifth child; a daughter; at Forli, Italy. Reputed weight: n Ibs. Name: Anna Maria...
...Dresden, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Rochester, Minneapolis, Cincinnati. With steady, vigorous beat he last week directed his Milwaukee debut. Featured were Tenor Edward Johnson, Soprano Yvonne Gall and Baritone William Phillips in excerpts from Faust. The rest was straight fare?Wagner's Rienzi Overture, Liszt's Les Preludes, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony; also there was George Gershwin's American in Paris whose absurdities caused the usual giggles. Suggested Critic Richand S. Davis of the Milwaukee Journal: "He should now construct A Frenchman in Chicago, which ought to be an even more impish diversion...
Like a great mausoleum the Metropolitan Museum of Art over an acre of Central Park in Manhattan, facing houses of the rich on Fifth Avenue. Inside are many tombs-tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs, of exalted bric-a-brac, of Art. In the art tombs are laid away examples of the work of the great painters and sculp- tors of other times. There are Rubenses, Rembrandts,* Rodins, Titians, Tintorettos, Tiepolos, scores of time-proven mediocrities, one Botticelli. Progressive artists throughout the East have long given up hope for modernity in the Metropolitan. Few of them ever visit its vaults. Scathingly they...