Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preliminary bouts of the University boxing tournament will be held in the handball courts of Hemenway Gymnasium at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The finals will take place on Friday night on the main floor...
...known as the son-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt. Indeed, the only defeat he suffered in his 18 years of service was that of 1912, when his father-in-law decided to run on a third ticket; Longworth did not go with him, but he lost, nonetheless. In the main, his trouble was that he shone in the public eye by virtue of reëleeted glory. Not until he was made Floor Leader did he gain any general reputation of his own. "Speaker Longworth" will give him another claim to distinction on his own account. It will give...
Eliminating with long shears great pieces of libretto, ballets, choruses, recitatives, invocations clouded with Italian melody and Egyptian shamanism, the Hippodrome, Manhattan, last week, presented Verdi's Aïda in tabloid form. The main plot remained, also the most tamed of the arias. The performance lasted 30 minutes instead of 180. As audiences were sucked in, pushed out of the enormous Hippodrome, it was seen that U. S. citizens who read tabloid newspapers, chew tabloid gum, can appreciate grand opera when its glories are compressed...
...discussing the United States Line itinerary. Mr. Holmes said, "At Genoa, the main thing is the situation of the city itself. The drive on the upper road above the city looking down is the most notable feature of the place. The general impression is the thing here. Don't be lured to the palaces and churches, as I once was. They may be important to the Genoese, but don't waste any time on them...
...more than a year the greatest problem of the Stone Mountain Memorial has been the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum. . . . He loafed on the job. . . . It has been extremely difficult to get him to do any work at all on the mountain, notwithstanding the large amounts of money paid him. His main desire seems to be to get his name in the newspapers as often as possible...