Word: make
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...precocious, shy, near-sighted schoolboy he came out from under the stage, wangled his way almost apologetically through the string-players, bowed to a cordial hand-clapping. Out went the lights. He chose a baton from the rack and began a careful, orthodox Vorspiel. Care alone, however, could not make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped and dragged. Never, obviously, was there an attempt for theatric effect. A left hand floating in an aimless way kept the instruments subdued, the colors pale. But it found no tender...
...Yale. . . . Together, Yale and Harvard are four times as strong as either one is alone. ... I am an older man than you. I shall be gone long before you. I earnestly hope that whatever you plan may come to fruition. When I am gone, any improvements which you make I know will benefit no less the institution where I was nurtured...
Last week the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children heaped bitter denunciation on the pragmatic Harvard Athletic Association. Said the Society: "We will make a quiet appeal to the . . . Association to bring this practice to an end. ... If police arrested the boys they would not be locked in cells. Children have certain rights which older people do not have...
...Century. Phoenixlike was the Century. Last August Editor Hewitt Hanson Rowland declared that "with added leisure in which to make a better magazine" Century's editors would give their subscribers "added leisure in which to read and reflect"; that the monthly Century would become a quarterly (TIME, Aug. 5). From 1906 to 1928 Century's circulation had dropped from 150,000 to 22,000. Last week, undismayed by the swan song of the quarterly Edinburgh Review (that "modern readers are not willing to wait a quarter of a year" [TIME, Oct. 28]) and in the Review...
Mostly in measured language he uproots what seem to him some vulgar errors and takes his final stand with such modern mystics as Astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington and Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead: "The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our life in it any less mysterious...