Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical taste (her only previous public appearances had been as a soloist with the Negro Hampton Institute Choir), Soprano Maynor modestly gave all the credit to her teachers. When she had heard the last concert of the Festival, Dorothy Maynor thanked her hostess for a nice time, took the next train for Manhattan, where she lives with her mother (a Methodist minister's widow) in a small upper-West Side apartment. When she got home she started practicing for her first public recital, at Town Hall in November. Said she: "My week has been so exciting...
Until his satisfactory identification through omens, portents, visions & oracles, this 14th reincarnation of Buddha was a 5-year-old peasant boy named Tanchu, "quiet mannered with bright penetrating eyes." Now Tanchu will live in a gold-domed penthouse atop the Potala, his massive fortress-palace at Lhasa, spend the next 13 years under the lama regency learning about his previous incarnations and the intricate Lamaist ritual. If he reaches the age of 18 he will be consecrated, rule for the rest of his days...
Since then auto production has gone down a smooth grade to the late summer valley where the industry will change to its 1940 production models. Impatient for the next rise, the industry set the New York automobile show, which officially opens the 1940 model year, to begin October 15, earlier than ever before. But even this did not satisfy the impatience of motormakers to get the fall selling season started...
Last week the first of the 1940 models had their previews. First to be shown were new Packards, priced $120 to $400 under '39 models. Next day Hudson showed its new line, including a low-priced six, a new, more powerful eight. Nash and Willys-Overland followed. Chrysler will show its new cars next week. Ford, General Motors and Studebaker all expected to show their new lines well before the New York show...
...Next day, having failed to up the price of gasoline, Harry Sinclair turned to his May alternative: Sinclair-Prairie Oil Marketing Co., another Consolidated subsidiary, cut its posted buying price for crude oil 20? a barrel...