Word: hungriest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chamber music is caviar to musical gourmets. Caviar from the very finest of sturgeons is the chamber music produced by the famed Budapest String Quartet, world's top-ranking string ensemble. To gobble up this treat last fortnight Manhattan's hungriest musical highbrows gathered in Town Hall to hear the first concert of the New Friends of Music's annual chamber-music series...
...reverse. Great Britain came out of World War I with a group of battle-scarred veterans of propaganda and a world-wide reputation for amazing cleverness in molding public opinion. For many a post-War year the seediest remittance man in South America was judged a secret agent; the hungriest British novelist lecturing to the U. S. was thought by many to be a Foreign Office spokesman. Britain's propaganda office was not organized until long after the invasion of Belgium, nevertheless reaction gave neutrals an enduring suspicion of Britons bearing news...
...detective, the Student Council has collected and presented a group of figures, the significance of which constitutes a startling revelation of undergraduate education. The Council, making what is perhaps its most worthy contribution of the year, has unmistakably shown that Harvard is playing unproviding father to its biggest and hungriest child. Although almost half of the college concentrates in the social sciences, less money is spent upon each student in the departments concerned than on each man in less popular fields like Classics and Chemistry. In fact, the budgets of the least-populated fields are too large, so that...
...National Lead Co. is indirectly one of the biggest contributors to the Bolivian cause in the Gran Chaco War. The Bolivian Government finances the war with a "patriotic" tax on exports; Bolivia's biggest export is tin produced by Patiño Mines & Enterprises Consolidated, Inc.; the hungriest consumer of Simon Patiño's tin is the U.S. and in the U.S. the second biggest buyer of the bluish-white metal is Mr. Cornish. Long allied with Senor Patiño, Mr. Cornish became vice president of Patiño Mines in 1924. Last week the corporate...
...Supreme Pontiff. German Protestants have pledged co-operation through their Union of Evangelical Churches. As Executive Secretary the Cardinal has picked Dr. Ewald Ammende. administrator of Catholic famine relief in Russia during the years 1920-22, years now admitted by Soviet leaders to have been among the hungriest in Russian historv...