Word: older
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harlem had its gangs that mimicked on the streets the warfare their older brothers were waging in Europe and in the Pacific. But such activities were not confined to Harlem, nor to the city of New York. Actually, the school was one bright spot where law and order prevailed. We quote from the Harlem Report: "The school (J.H.S. 120) was run in a businesslike, efficient way with discipline well maintained, pupils orderly in halls and on stairways - a generally well-kept building. Principal, teachers and pupils deserved credit for this...
...admirers point out that he is only six weeks older than Harry Truman. They feel that he is one of the nation's few great Senators in the tradition of Borah, Norris, Daniel Webster and Clay; that he combines international vision with hardheaded common sense; that he has had the courage to admit a big mistake and to put his country above politics; that he is an American statesman known and respected abroad, the only G.O.P. candidate with wide experience in international affairs at a time when international affairs are paramount...
Near the end of the novel a Jewish terrorist pointlessly murders the most powerful and fervent of the older Zionists-a man who had sworn that Jews would never kill Britons. Arabesque, like the Middle East adventure stories that Eric Ambler spins, is no great shakes as a work of art, but it manages, along with romance, a dispassionate little picture of the way the tide was running toward the recent desperate events in Palestine...
With the start of the 1946-47 season, Noel Lee '46 was chosen president, and a new policy was instituted of playing contemporary and rarely performed older music in the belief that the Club could do a real service in presenting works which could not be heard elsewhere...
...Fiftieth Anniversary Concert Sunday evening in Sanders Theater, the Chamber Orchestra will continue the policy of presenting lesser known older works, when it performs the Bach Triple Concerto in A-Minor for flute, violin, and piano, and Mozart's Divertimento in D. There is no record of performance for either of these compositions. Also sched- uled on the program are the Handel Oboe Concerto in B Flat and the first performance of Van Slyck's Sonatine for Clarinet and Strings. The orchestra will be under the direction of Van Slyck and the soloists include: Uni Springing, violin; flutist, Lois Schaefer...