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Word: non (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madame Alda (now 66) recalls it, Caruso said, "Non fa niènte. You just stand still and move your lips and I'll sing it for you." With his back to the audience, he did just that. Says Alda: "I felt like sitting up in my bed and joining in the applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Night at the Opera | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Israel, the Shofar's sound echoed for the first time in more than 2,000 years through a free land in which the People of the Covenant could walk in safety and peace. The Labor government of non-Orthodox Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion made provision for an Orthodox observance. Cantors and special prayer books were dispatched to Israel's army bases. The police detoured all traffic away from Tel Aviv's great synagogue on Allenby Street, while inside, black & white robed rabbis prayed and chanted. In the Tel Aviv area alone some 400 synagogues were filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 5710 | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Brannan plan brushes aside any idea of a gradual reduction of price props, and substitutes much higher support prices pegged to an "income support standard." This would guarantee farmers an income as fat as the one they have enjoyed in the past ten years, with little thought for non-farmers who must foot the bill in taxes. This week, ex-Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson blasted the plan as unworkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Wild Harvest | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...giving Comp. Lit. 166, a half course in the "Forms of the Modern Novel." It could be a very good bet (Emerson D). Nock's History of Religions 101 is highly entertaining. Good to listen in on occasionally (Harvard 5). Kenneth Conant's Fine Arts 179, "American Architecture." is non-technical, not difficult, and excellent to audit. Slides and aucedotes (Fogg Large Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CLASSGOER | 9/29/1949 | See Source »

Houston, still limping slightly, did not take part in signal drills, much less scrimmage, but he did run alongside the first string line during its non-contact work and the medical staff gave him a 50-50 chance of being ready by Saturday...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Varsity Sets Defenses for Columbia | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

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