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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain, the former chief executive is going into print. His way of doing it is fully in keeping with a certain democratic spirit of the times, a way that insures Mr. Coolidge reaching a considerable mass of his recent supporters. But there is about it all something that suggests less the literary debut of a former president than the vaudeville tour of a returned channel swimmer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PEN FOR THE SPHINX | 3/7/1929 | See Source »

...been offered by University officials towards remedying this lack. Suitable living accommodations are important factors in providing for the welfare of the student but they are only one phase of the problem and it would be the utmost folly to develop them to the exclusion of the no less essential teaching facilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GROWING PAINS | 3/7/1929 | See Source »

...issued that if attending this revue will mean your second or third visit, it may not be all that past memories lead you to expect. For from our carefully amassed comments of theatregoers we find it reported that there is too much sameness in the productions. There is less dash; the joie de vivre seems to have worn...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/7/1929 | See Source »

Mozart's Haffner Symphony was first - Haffner because it was written to oblige a wealthy burgomaster, so named, of Salzburg. Mozart wrote it in less than a fortnight, when he was 26. Toscanini himself lost 35 of his 61 years when he led it, gave it exceeding grace and innocence. Second was a manuscript performance of Respighi's Roman Festivals, music that would be perilously close to claptrap if done by any other. But Toscanini found something real and savage in all the din of the Circus Maximus episode. Lions roared. Christians sang their martyr songs. Part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Genius | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...ordinary motorcar engine, with its 4, 6 or 8 cylinders set in a line, or its 6, 8 or 12 cylinders arranged in a deep V. has much less wind resistance than the radial airplane motor. Cooling by water requires bulk and weight, yet many a large and powerful plane uses Packard and Curtiss water-cooled models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Packard-Diesel Motor | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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