Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woody Herman, famous leader-clarinetist of "The Band That Plays the Blues", will be at the Minute Man Record Shop on Boylston Street next Wednesday from three to four. Besides having brought his band from mere local fame to a national peak in the space of one year, Woody is a brilliant musician and really knows whereof he speaks. Drop around and get him to tell you why he thinks all good jazz should be built on the blues--it's worth hearing...
...Report, the University announced yesterday the appointments of Professor Graustein and Associate Professor Buck as Assistant Deans of Faculty. Enlargement of the function and personnel of this office has long been urged as a step toward alleviating problems of tenure and promotion among the faculty. Instead of being a mere channel through which the departmental recommendations were submitted to the President, the Office should now become a positive force in the system of appointment...
...mostly he shook his head over its speed and his bewilderment: "All this has happened in the briefest space of time . . . mere fortnight has passed . . . Poland already has lost her industrial centers . . . no one knows the whereabouts of the Polish Government...
...began) : "Recommending a peace conference was like advocating the wisdom of insurance in the midst of a city-wide conflagration." The board surveyed the background of the world's disorders, presented some political and economic principles based upon its belief that "the Church Universal ... is not a mere idea but a reality, transcending the nations. It is created by the will of God, not by the will of men. For this reason faith in the Universal Church is the very basis of work towards a better order. . . ." The board concluded its statement with a seven-point program...
Because of this fact many of the exchanges which preceded the outbreak of war undoubtedly transcended mere diplomacy, and reached the level of moral efforts to save the human race. And all of the exchanges, genuine or hypocritical, were designed to appeal to this feeling in humanity at large...