Word: minor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Symphony Orchestra gave the first concert of its 13th season before a friendly, congenial audience that radiated enthusiasm over the orchestra, the program and Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Beethoven and Brahms wrote the important music for the evening-the Lenore Overture No. 3, and Brahms' First Symphony in C Minor with its tender upward sweep of strings, the sombre throbbing of basses and tympanums, bravely building, mellow, wise. Debussy and Liszt furnished the spice- Nuages and Fêtes, vague, lovely, and the Second Hungarian Rhapsody, vigorous, breathless. Conductor Gabrilowitsch did his work well, won for himself an ovation...
...captains and managers of the University's five major sports teams, and the President of the Minor Sports Council met in the office of W. J. Bingham '16 yesterday afternoon, and under the guidance of the Director of Athletics, formed a new organization which is to be known as the Undergraduate Athletics Council...
...night of March 15, 1925, one Madge Oberholtzer, a girl locally known as "Poor Madge," who had been connected in a minor capacity with Republican activities in Indianapolis, was led to Mr. Stephenson's house, forced to take a drink, and abducted by train to Hammond where Mr. Stephenson ravished her. In the morning she found some arsenic on the bathroom shelf. She was returned in a closed car to her father's house on March 17. Later she died...
...London Daily Express featured during the week alleged revelations to the effect that Premier Mussolini has definite plans under way to seize from Turkey a portion of Asia Minor with the connivance if not the actual armed assistance of Greece...
...other hand there are pedants and scholars in this country sufficient to place a Widener Library containing annotated editions of the minor poets of all times on the Main street of every village. Excellent men, lovers of poetry, they are in no sense creative--and can inspire scholarship alone--never creative art. Like their lesser brethren, the gentlemen of the Anderson, Masters like, they can not hope to effect anything in the particular variety of endeavor for which the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry was endowed. So in the choice of Gilbert Murray is revealed a precision and accuracy...