Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latter work, entitled "Apparebit Repentina Dies", is based on a Latin poem of uncertain date and authorship ("before A.D. 700", said the program). This is a description in unrhymed octameter couplets of a Doomsday that recalls by its luridness the same scene as painted in the liturgical "Dies Irae." Mr. Hindemith's musical setting, though interspersed with brass interludes in his familiar fugal style, is perhaps a shade expeditious for so picturesque a subject. It trips, or rather bumps along in a jolly fashion that depicts little and scares no one; but it is distinguished music, if a bit ineffective...
...Bruin opposition has been very similar to the Crimson's. Both losses suffered by the Providence nine have come at the hands of Boston College, but the Eagles had more trouble with Brown than the Varsity was able to offer, winning 8 to 6 and 10 to 4, the latter contest in ten innings Wednesday. On the other and, the Bruins nudged Lowell Textile 9 to 8 while Harvard humiliated the same team...
Grey-haired Grace Coolidge, 68, also contributed a footnote to the history books. In his latter days, she disclosed, "Silent Cal"* sometimes didn't say a word for two months. "There is no greater training for a woman," she pointed out, "than to live with a man who does not speak for two months. . . . But," she insisted, "he had his moments. He really...
...other stores, the Gold Coast Valeteria and the Minute Man Radio Company, made partial reductions, the latter reducing all radios by 10 percent but leaving record prices at their former level, while the Valeteria cut laundry rates 10 percent but left its cleaning charges untouched...
...this classification, veterans did some-what better than non-veterans, since 30 percent of the former, as opposed to 28.5 percent of the latter, achieved a Dean's list average...