Word: finality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prison record. Practically the entire remainder of the cast is bent upon hurling him back to the gaol. A diamond necklace is stolen and things look pretty sour for him. But he picks the very necklace out of the chief detective's pocket just in time for the final happy curtain...
...with a grip more icy than the winter winds, maintained its hold upon the main expedition. Originally, Captain Wilkins had planned to lead three monoplanes into the north?two triple-engined Fokkers and a single-motored Liberty. One of the Fokkers was burned up in January during its final tests at the Ford experimental field near Detroit. The other Fokker (the Detroiter) and the Liberty plane?dubbed Alaskan?had reached Fairbanks safely. Snowplows and road-rollers had labored for days ironing out a take-off and landing field in the wrinkled snow-carpet covering Fairbanks...
...attitude of the Kaiser on the eve of the war is brought out, beyond the possibility of misunderstanding, in a comment he wrote on one of the official dispatches from Russia, which to him sealed the future fate of Germany. He dwells with bitterness on this final triumph of what he considers the machinations of the English diplomatic corps. He also foresees with sadness the years of misery and war, and the final overthrow of Germany. That scarcely sounds to me like the language of a man who has just reached the long awaited hour of glory and conquest...
Basil Davenport, the final speaker for the affirmative delivered the most brilliant speech of the evening, and won the audience over to the Yale position. He began by complaining that education dried up one's sense of humor. He also asked how education could recompease us for the diseases and evils which it brings on us and then is itself necessary to cure them. Going off on a different line. Davenport represented himself as a Spartan coming to Athens, which was represented by Harvard, to show the people there that their ideal of education was not the one on which...
...following is a review of the performance of Brahm's German Requiem given yesterday at Symphony Hall by the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society under the direction of M. Koussevitsky. The final performance of the Requiem will take place tonight at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall...