Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This step was taken to bring the work begun yesterday by several assistant crew managers to a more speedy conclusion. A large cut has already been made and for a foot out from the riverbank in front of Standish Hall. It is expected that the Leviathan will be on the water before the end of the week if the weather continues warm, and the work on the ice continues with reasonable rapidity...
This sudden manner with which the Countess announces that she has a book for sale provokes a faint smile of suspicion. However, when one has occupied the front page of a nation's newspapers for several consecutive days, one can do wonders, even write novelist in fortnights...
...Serge Soudeikine, who in designing the sets dared to do as much with wild, intoxicating color as Stravinsky did with his horns and strings rhd piano. Marion Talley (TIME, Mar. 1) was the Nightingale, never once seen. She stood in the orchestra pit with the players, right in front of Conductor Tullio Serafin, sang difficult music creditably, won curtain calls for herself alone, when it was all over, from an audience that found Stravinsky's cacophonies a bit unintelligible, Soudeikine's color a bit dazzling...
...French have planned a compromise type of expedition, using motor sledges in co-operation with collapsible amphibian planes. Their sledges differ from the caterpillar-tread ones that failed Wilkins, having suction-grip rubber "paws" on a traction wheel extended in front of the sled-runners...
...past year has seen more discussion and deploration of the professional aspect of athletics than almost any period in their history. Opinions of persons interested in sports, especially intercollegiate sports, reached the height of front page avidity, and drew serious comments from high college authorities. In the face of this throat to amateurism in sports, the athletic committees of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale have thrown caution to the four winds and have openly assailed the pocketbooks of their respective alumni. How will this action effect public opinion as regards professionalism in athletics? What will be the effect on the alumni...