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Word: normans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minneapolis audience welcomed the piece wholeheartedly, from the poignantly elegiac first movement to the brilliant and stirring folk dance at the end. Wrote Tribune Critic Norman Houk: "The Bartok concerto was a major success ... It was given an alert, keyed-up performance by a soloist, orchestra and conductor who had been working on the complex score for a strenuous week . . . A permanent and important addition to the viola repertory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dead Man's Diamond | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Wild life and religion stand out as about the only two comprehensible characteristics of Charles Waterton. Investigating the rest of him is like entering a maze that turns out to have been planned as a staggering hoax. Many (including Novelist Norman Douglas and Poet Edith Sitwell) have been lured down the winding trails that appear to lead to the Watertonian heart of the matter-only to find that a conglomeration of blind alleys is, itself, the mysterious center of the weird and wonderful meanderer. Biographer Richard (The Duke) Aldington, in the most complete work on Waterton to date, explores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Birds & Bigotry | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Coach Norman Shepard used a shifting defense--man-to-man on the outside. But to keep his defenders from being screened by the weaving Jumbo offense, he often had them switch men on the outside. This kept the middle so well bottled up that in the first half, Mullaney was the only Jumbo who could break through and score with any consistency. Mullaney got six field goals in the first period, but was held to two in the second. In that period, Tufts had to rely mainly in the long set-shots on Captain Al Perry...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Quintet Stops Tufts, 67-56, In First Game | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Coach Norman Shepard lifts the lid on his first Harvard basketball team, and opens the local season as well, at 8:45 p.m. tonight when an equally untested Tufts five trots onto the Blockhouse floor...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Basketball, Hockey Squads Open Against Tufts, Tech | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

...Cambridge portion of the debate, in which Norman M. Hinerfeld '51, Melvin L. Zurier '50, and Richard D. Rohr '50, will take the negative, will be held in the Winthrop Junior Common Room at 8 p.m. and will be broadcast by the Crimson Network. William C. Becker '51, Richard W. Hulbert '51, and Richard S. Stewart '50 will uphold the affirmative at New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Argue Yale on Banning of Red Teachers | 12/2/1949 | See Source »

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