Word: hundredths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Ethel May Dell, fiftyish, prolific author of 16 super-saccharine best-selling novels (Greatheart, The Hundredth Chance, The Lamp in the Desert, etc.); in Hertford, England...
...Symphony that played them. The Illini played few symphonic chestnuts, never repeated a composition. By the end of last season they were giving even more "first performances" than Serge Kousse-vitzky's pioneering Boston Symphony. Some of their firsts were imported, some domestic. Last week they played their hundredth composition by a U. S. composer...
...writer, who signed himself "W. R. Slack," grudgingly came across with a few facts. The college is "now celebrating its hundredth year of sev- teachers for their immediate tasks in the classroom...
Galsworthian technique-thorough rubber-necking at upper-middle-class lives -is at best photographic, kaleidoscopic; at worst trite, futile, obvious. One of Alec Waugh's characters testifies against the author on page 263 (not yet the end): "Her marriage had become like a novel on whose two hundredth page the reader, foreseeing the climax, can only remain inquisitive as to the actual means by which the ultimate unravelling is to be achieved...
Embarking today for England where they will take part in the one-hundredth anniversary Henley Regatta, Bert Haines' 150-pound crew leaves New York today on the Aquitania, confident of victory. The Eli crew which it beat last month on the Charles will make the voyage on the same boat...