Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What made her interesting to Boston music lovers was her reputation as one of the most famous composition teachers of her generation. In Paris (where she heads the Ecole Normale de Musique's composition department) and in Fontainebleau (where she has long been associated with the American Conservatory), Mile Boulanger, at one time or another, has had nearly half of the better-known younger U. S. composers at her feet. Main purpose of her present Boston visit is not conducting but teaching. The news that she was to lecture for a term at Radcliffe College brought pleas for admission...
Catholic in her teaching principles, Mile Boulanger has teethed a varied crew of composers: conservatives like Quinto Maganini, Douglas Moore and Virgil Thomson; wide-open Westerners like Oklahoma-born Roy Harris; jazz-bred Manhattanites like Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein; rip-roaring cacophonists like Walter Piston. But when the late George Gershwin visited her in Paris, proposed himself as a pupil, it took her only ten minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right...
...even more colossal port. It is calculated to serve the biggest commercial planes of the century ahead, and to function as a centre of all aviation in Germany. At one end of a surfaced, oval landing field, with 10,000-ft. runways, will curve a full mile of administration buildings, restaurants, hangars...
...introduced the measure fortnight ago. His was the only super-highway scheme reduced to map form (see map) and consequently the one on which argument focused last week. It calls for payment of $8,000,000,000 from the U. S. Treasury to build $500,000-a-mile, crow-flight highways which would antiquate for express travel most existing routes. Representative Snyder's scheme would put approximately 1,600,000 men directly to work, says he, and would be a great aid to national defense. (His six North-South arteries stop significantly short of the Canadian border...
...last autumn in the interest of economy he came out against the building of public roads, President Roosevelt last week dignified the super-highway idea by endorsing Senator Bulkley's self-payment plan as a business pump primer, and by suggesting that through excess condemnation of land a mile each side of the superhighways the Government might realize a profit when land values rose...