Word: older
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exceptions would have to be made, of course, in the case of some of the older members of the Faculty, for whom the readjustment of methods would be difficult, and for certain others who are engaged in special research, writing, the direction of graduate students, or other work which demands the greater part of their time...
...foolish enough to try to place myself in a class, for example, with Ravel and Sibelius, whom I admire tremendously," says Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe ("Ferde Grofe"), "but there is a real place for my kind of music. Some time, when I get older-I am 44 now-I may try a strict symphony form, but in the meantime I am going on trying to describe America in music." The America of Ferde Grofe (pronounced Ferdy GroFay), plump onetime arranger for Paul Whiteman and for the past five years a highly successful semi-classical musician on his own, is bounded...
Died, James Judson McKellar, 79, older brother of Tennessee's senior Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar; of heart disease; in Memphis...
...that aircraft makers design not only from a flight aspect but also with an eye to ease of maintenance. At Kansas City, hefty Prizeman Hamilton heads TWA's maintenance crew of 418 men. or 15 valets for each one of TWA's 27 Douglas transports. ¶ An older prize presented again last week was the Sylvanus Albert Reed Award of $250, given annually by the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences for the year's most notable contribution to aeronautical science. This year's winner: Professor Edward Story Taylor. 34, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His invention...
...Jersey of Scotch-Canadian parents, Elinor Glyn (nee Sutherland) spent her early childhood in Canada in an atmosphere of "aristocratic exclusiveness" which she admits was "already nearly a century out of date" but which stood her in good stead in her lifelong pursuit of Romance. Elinor's older sister (afterwards Lady Duff-Gordon) was considered the beauty of the family. Elinor herself had red hair and green eyes, and red hair was not the thing in the 1880s...