Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston Symphony will give the fourth pair of concerts of its regular series in Symphony Hall on Friday afternoon and Saturday evening. Dr. Koussevitsky is to conduct the first Boston performance of the orchestral suite from Stravinsky's ballet, "Le Baiser de la Fee", which was written in 1928. The ballet bears the subtitle, "Inspired by the Muse of Tchaikovsky", and makes free use of that composer's themes. It seems rather incongruous that the neo-classic Stravinsky and the romantic Tchaikovsky should be thus combined, especially since the former has written: "I always aim at straight forward expression...
...antiquity. Some scholars believe that the ancient Jews knew about syphilis and that this disease and its peculiar transmission were referred to in the Second Commandment: For I the Lord Thy God ama jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. The Greeks, in a dim, foggy way, described ailments contracted by unclean intercourse. The Romans were among the first to develop a sense of shame in connection with venereal diseases and said as little about them as possible.* As the Dark Ages settled down...
...last week Trainer Jacobs, who a dozen years ago did not know the difference between a pony and a Percheron, saddled his 150th winner of the current season. With ten weeks of racing left, his total should reach 175 before the year is over. This will be the fourth consecutive year that Trainer Jacobs has saddled more than 100 winners. Unlike that of Cowboy Irwin, his record was compiled at the best tracks and against the best competition U. S. horse-racing has to offer...
Ohio State got a touchdown in the first quarter. Northwestern got one in the second. Ohio State got another in the third. Northwestern got another in the fourth. After the last, a seesaw battle between two of the best teams in the country and Ohio State's hopes for another Big Ten championship ended simultaneously when Don Geyer's conversion made the final score 14-to-13 for Northwestern...
...high-wing, cabin monoplane popular with sporting brokers and airport joyriders in the twilight of the 1920's. Depression hit the company as hard as it hit the rest of the industry, and in the last five years planes, on the average, have accounted for only one-fourth of Fairchild sales. The balance was derived from the aerial camera and survey divisions, in both of which fields Fairchild is an undisputed leader...