Word: order
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years public speaking has been a torture to the stuttering Duke of York. Well known is the fact that in order to avoid saying "K-K-K-King" at moments of state he habitually refers to his father as "His Majesty." Specialists, remembering the Duke's extreme shyness as a child, have for years treated his stuttering psychologically, as caused by nervousness. The treatments were unavailing, His Royal Highness continued to splutter...
When a manufacturer accepts an order, whether it be to his liking or not, that order must be filled. In such a curiously commercial predicament is Deems Taylor, manufacturer of musical criticism and music. After his King's Henchman had had a fair success three years ago, he was commissioned to write a second opera for the Metropolitan Opera Company. Since that time he has ostensibly been a musical handyman, editing Musical America, which under his regime went bankrupt, writing miscellaneous articles for magazines, expounding opera on the radio (TIME, Nov. 18). In secret he has struggled with the commissioned...
...candidates will be asked to report between then and Christmas vacation, in order to get in condition for the coming events. The Knights of Columbus meet will be the first of the winter season, about three weeks after the vacation, in the Boston Garden on January 25. During the middle of December, there will be an informal indoor track meet...
...team, and that the teams shall be rated according to the weighted average based upon the highest examination grades obtained in four selected subjects in the case of each of their seven members. The subjects must represent the four major fields of the candidates' preparation, and in order to find a place on the team a candidate must take examinations of the College Entrance Examinations of the College Entrance Examination Board. He cannot claim admission to college without examination, under the honor plan...
...spending two weeks on each of the three sports, and at the end of the competition, six positions will be filled. The winner will have his choice of the three second assistant managerships, with the five remaining assistant and Freshman positions awarded by choice to the other candidates in order of their rank in the competition...