Word: opus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First an expedient, Cuba has grown to be a passion with Mr. Byoir. Through the Post's columns he fights her cause with all the fervor of a native. Cubans took him to their collective bosom for his magnum opus, a thoroughgoing study of the sugar industry and a series of smashing antitariff editorials which, spread over the front page of the Post, were widely quoted...
...Sebastian Bach Harpsichord: Ralph Kirkpatrick '31 II Sonatine for Flute, in D major Harry Seaver '33 Flute; E. DuBois Swart '32 Pianoforte: Harry Seaver '33 III Violin Sonata in A minor Clair Leonard '23 Violin: Malcolm Holmes '28 Pianoforte: Clair Leonard '23 IV Variations on a Theme by Haydn (opus 56b) for two pianos Johannes Brahms...
...Museum of Natural History. In 1906 he became Honorary Curator (without salary) of Arms & Armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Almost the same time that he was obtaining the invaluable Riggs collection of armor for the Metropolitan, he was publishing through the Natural History Museum his magnum opus, a stupendous, three-volume Bibliography of Fishes...
WHEN two university professors sit down, as Messre Brennecke and Clark have done, to wire a "how to do it" book for professionals, the resulting opus is almost always full of old and obvious data mingled with much misleading and impertinent material. Even, if by some freak of good fortune, the academic mind should produce a sane work on some subject like article writing, the successful contributor to magazines can be heard to dismiss it with "I don't like it, even if it is good...
Soloists Miss Comstock and Mr. Holmes Saudades do Brazil Milhand Stavonic Dances, Opus 46, Book 1 Nos 2 and 3 Dyorak