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Three more Eliot House teams wound up on top of Straus trophy competition yesterday to lengthen the Mastodon lead as the winter intramural schedules swung into their last week of action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Clinches Three Titles As Winter Sport Scene Ends | 3/12/1948 | See Source »

...years in Pittsburgh, Hungarian-born Fritz Reiner's sharp tongue and stern baton won him more admirers than friends. But he gave Pittsburgh an orchestra to be proud of. Three years ago, when the trustees let him build it up to 90 men and lengthen the season, the Pittsburgh Symphony became one of the ten best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Goodbye to Pittsburgh | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.-Isaiah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Pastorate, New Pastor | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...threat to Russia. Bevin told the House of Commons that he had "deliberately raised" the question at Moscow last December with Stalin: "You want friendly neighbors. Well, in my street I want friendly neighbors too." He reminded Stalin of the Anglo-Soviet 20-year treaty of friendship, offered to lengthen it to 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: An Imperial Socialist | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...Cool of the Evening. After court the Imam rides through Sana's surprisingly wide, flowery streets in a horse-drawn coach. As the shadows lengthen in Sana men, women & children gather in the courtyards for the daily ritual and recreation-the chewing of the qat. They squat about brass spittoons (in the better homes) and tear the leaves of Catha edulis fresh from the stems. Some travelers have said that qat is an aphrodisiac, but a Yemenite philosopher has set the world straight on that point. "It brings rest to the body and ease to the mind," he wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CHANCELLERIES: The Land of Qat | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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