Word: majority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...temporary wooden stands, heretofore erected at the open end of the Harvard stadium for the major games, are to be replaced with permanent steel stands...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra. Serge Koussevitzky conducting, will give a concert in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock on Thursday evening. The program will include Bach's Branden-burg Concerts No. 4 in g major for violin, two flutes and string orchestra, Mozart, Symphony in C major, No. 41 "Jupiter"; Debussy, Nocturnes; Satire-Gymnopedies (Orchestrated by Debussey); Ravel, "La Valse" and "Choreo graphic Poem...
...tall, hulking man walked on to the stage at Carnegie Hall last week, bent himself into an awkward bow at the piano, and played superbly Bach's Partita No. 2 in C Minor, three Scarlatti sonatas, Schumann's C Major Fantasia and the first book of Debussy preludes. He was Walter Gieseking, come from Germany for another extended tour,* and he played, as he has always played, music that he himself has tried truly and found good...
...week, in Paris, the League announced whom it regarded as the most significant flyers of 1928. It was a specialists' tribute to specialists. The names form an epitome of air adventure. Capt. Arturo Ferrarin of Italy, his fel lows believe, accomplished the best feat of the year. With Major Carlo Delprete, he flew non-stop from Rome to Port Natal, Brazil, 4,417 miles in 51 hr. 59 min. Capt. Ferrarin's predecessor, in 1927, was of course Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh - New York-Paris, 3,600 miles, 33 hr. 30 min., all alone...
...Capt. Herman Koehl-in the Bremen from Ireland to Labrador. France: Capt. Dieudonné Costés-with Lieut. Commander Joseph Lebrix, on a 35,000-mile world aerial tour. Italy: Capt. Ferrarin. In Latin America the best flyers were: Venezuela, Capt. Manuel Rios, Ecuador, Capt. Luis Mantilla; Bolivia, Major Santalla Estrella...