Word: greatness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...digging out the important little facts that make Wellesley the great college it is ... a gold star. BARBARA SCOTT CRAWFORD Erie...
...standards of life being raised," Dr. Nourse said dryly, "... when a great labor organization sees the current situation as 'the occasion for a reduction in hours of work'... or when the czar of coal orders a three-day week with full pay . . . and when pensions at 60 are demanded for a population steadily becoming longer lived...
...transit systems and pulled down old elevated lines, making thousands of jobs. When the banks in Boston refused to lend him money for this spending spree, he bolted traditions and borrowed from banks all over the country. Those were the days when newspaper editorials hailed him as the first great leader to emerge from the Boston Irish...
...fairness it cannot be said, however, that the concert was not enjoyable. There were several moments of great beauty, especially in the slow moments of the sonatas and in the eleventh variation on the Mozart theme. Mr. Brown succeeded in putting a great deal of feeling into his playing at these times. All the singing qualities of the instrument that were missing in other movements appeared here...
...great difficulty with the actual performance of these works was that the men frequently destroyed this masterly. Beethoven made the cello part the more important occasionally, made the two parts equal the rest of the time, and almost never put the piano into prominence. Unfortunately, Wednesday night the cello part was only occasionally equal to that of the piano and frequently less prominent...