Word: losings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much against advice of wiseacres, who said he would lose his shirt. Ira Arthur Hirschmann, music-loving vice president of Manhattan's Saks-Fifth Avenue department store, last year founded the New Friends of Music. Its purpose: to give Manhattanites the very best in chamber music, played by the very best artists (TIME, Nov. 16). Before selling a ticket for his series of 16 Sunday concerts, Mr. Hirschmann boldly took on some $9,000 worth of contracts with artists and Town Hall. The season over, astute Friend of Music Hirschmann could grin at calamity-howlers...
...seems to be no fatal drawback for a pianist to lose his right hand. There have been written for the left hand alone four good pieces with opus numbers by Reger; two finely conceived and well-placed selections of Skriabin, opus 9; etudes by Moszkowski, Saint-Saens, Berens; and also Brahms has set Bach's Chaconne in D minor for violin alone as a study for the left hand...
...seriously. Only this fall it was proved that one particularly wandering proctor had spent only two out of thirty-three nights in his room. It is up to the University to see that such abuses do not go unpunished; there is no reason why a proctor should not immediately lose his position if he violates his trust...
...their district but absolutely unable to appraise the political standing of these presidents- they are all unknown to them." In these circumstances, according to the Soviet press, it has been necessary for some local Communist officials to consult, even compromise with the village priest. "In order not to lose the votes of believers," reported Komsomolskaya Pravda with disapproval, "local Communists are often trying to please them, instead of struggling against their influence with the masses...
This was no easy task. But the performance of the team against Clemson and Columbia showed how well it had been done, as Army triumphed 21-6 and 21-18. The team slumped against Yale to lose 15-7, but came back a week later to overwhelm Washington University of St. Louis 46-7, and went on to down Virginia Military Institute...