Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long. In thought the seasons run concurrently...
...that 6,000 to 8,000 Fair employes check in as visitors every time they enter the grounds, thus raising the apparent daily attendance. When Perley Boone, the Fair's publicity chief, went to greet the millionth visitor, he forgot his ticket, got in only after a long struggle...
...piece de resistance was the huge 8th Symphony of Gustav Mahler, for full chorus, boys' choir, a 102-man symphony orchestra and a choir of brass instruments off stage. One of the most impressive of 20th-century symphonic works, Mahler's immense, unwieldy, hour-and-a-half-long symphony is seldom performed. When Leopold Stokowski played it in Philadelphia 23 years' ago, proud Philadelphians crowed as though they had hatched a world's series baseball team. But Cincinnatians just took it in their stride, put it on the same program with another hour-long choral epic...
Harvard's powerful rugby team took another step towards the eastern collegiate championship by blanking a fighting Long Island University outfit 16 to 0 on Soldiers Field...
Once more, it is vicious because of the rich man, poor man problem. There is a premium on the long purse; and Mammon has his share in dictating grades. The financially less able scholar is given an unfair handicap in the contest with a wealthy competitor. Sentiment on this score is intense and vigorous...