Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oarsmen face the M. I. T. first year crew in the curtain raiser for the Harvard-Tech regatta at 4 o'clock this afternoon. It is the premiere for Coach H. H. Haines' men and will suffice to test the strength of what is reputed to be a very powerful Freshman combination...
Last week two premieres were announced for a double bill. Die Maien- konigen was the curtain-raiser, a pastoral meringue, mixed & baked, it is said, by no less a man than Gluck for the birthday palate of Maria Theresa. Then came Richard Strauss's Feuersnot...
...Trelle, of Wembley, Peace River, Alberta, Canada, brought samples of oats which yielded him 123 bushels to the acre. The judges gave him the prize, and thus for the sixth time in eight years a Canadian won the oats championship. C. Edson Smith of Corvallis, Mont., was champion wheat raiser...
...Harlan Uptegraff, President of Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, has resigned his position on the grounds that he came to the college as an educator, rather than as a money raiser...
...Half Way Down", a play in one act, supposedly a curtain raiser, proves that at least one Radcliffe soul has found the sawdust path to salvation better than the primrose avenue to disbelief. Ann, a shop girl whose diction approaches Thirty Third Street to retreat to Park Avenue, meets Father Time in the ringed arena of keen dialectic, vide Bruce Barton, and wins by faith alone. "There is a God", she cries, and all the little birds fly home to their nests and old father sun winks at little Johnnie Skunk...