Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strongly dissonant counterpoint, was a little meaty, perhaps, for such a casual audience. This program culminates a year of cooperation between music at Harvard and the Boston Symphony Orchestra which has made possible performances of Beethoven's "Mass in D" and the Brahma "Requiem," and has added so much to the content of Boston's concert season...
...their revenge. March business had dropped back to the August rate and the "outside" copper dealers, feeling the pinch, let the price down to 10¼?. The big producers, however, refused to follow, preferring to keep the price split, since the independents do not have the capacity to handle much business. Finally, early in April, American Smelting & Refining cut its product to 10¼?, halfway between the independents and the other big producers, forcing the big producers to follow them down...
Catching the price a cent below what they last paid, the auto companies came in. Copper sales picked up; in a few days twice as much was sold as in the month of March, copper finishing mills kept running at 50% to 60% of capacity. Loss to corper companies on the cut: $1,200,000. Saving to auto manufacturers: nearly 60 per unit & parts (mostly radiators...
...hear Maestro Arturo Toscanini conduct a Beethoven concert in Queen's Hall. During the intermission the King invited the Maestro to visit him in the royal box. The Maestro, who once shushed Mussolini for talking during a concert, sent word that a royal presentation would distract him too much...
Moreover is he justified in tutoring when the University muffs its end of the bargain. When some courses are poorly organized and others are poorly taught, when there is vastly too much reading for the average ability in still others, then outside tutoring is a necessary evil. Then it is a fruit, not a root. So says the majority opinion...