Word: peering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some time ago you had a Slogan contest. Now, I am going to give your magazine a boost in the following words: TIME is queer, But it has no peer...
...Baron Carson, quavering 73-year-old Irish Life Peer: "It's high time . . . [Pause] ... I say it is high time that the Lords asserted themselves! . . . "However . . . [Pause] . . . some of us are to blame. . . . There are about 700 peers . . . [Pause] . . . and yet I notice, whenever I come here that 50 seems . . . [Pause] ... to be a good average attendance...
...hopped into his car and canvassed the state for moral support as well as program advertising. Local gentility encouraged but the potential box-office patrons remained contemptuous. The first rehearsal was held last fall. In order to allay suspicion such more popular numbers as "The Merry Wives of Windsor," "Peer Gynt," and Sousa's "Gridiron Club March" were promised...
...first board of regents consulted leading contemporary scientists-Faraday, Bache, Silliman -;who unanimously averred that Joseph Henry, natural historian and physicist at Princeton, was "without a peer in American science." Joseph Henry relinquished his private researches and gave 32 years, as the Institution's first secretary, to making its charter into a reality...
...there is a very substantial achievement on record, the dates of success in which carry on steadily to the present. Strauss is distinguished in at least four fields of music. Though his early compositions were not remarkable, he was even then known, and is still admired and feared, as peer of the greatest orchestral conductors. "He knew every instrument, and imperiously got what he wanted," said one critic. A veritable prima donna for temper, he once threatened to hurl his baton in the faces of the Weimar choir, unless their singing immediately improved. It was not surprising, then, that...