Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity swimmers took seven of nine firsts to chalk up a 46 to 29 win over the Engineers. Jerry Gorman and Ted Norris, who won their own events and then teamed to clinch the 300-yard medley, stood out among the victors. The Yardling team took the curtain-raiser from its Tech opposite number by a 45 to 21 count...
Champion Visitor. The new president had a majestic mien, a Wall Street manner and a Midas touch, which eventually brought to Columbia $120,161,727. He was a new kind of college president, of a type now familiar: an administrator, a speech maker, a fund raiser, and not too much of a scholar...
Last night proved that the exceptional all-round improvement shown during the last week of practice in team play was not only a dream raiser. Plays clicked and extinguished any semblance of a Tech defense, with pivot-man Pat McCormick, his alternator John, Lombard, and Smith virtually roping off the backboard areas and tipping the points in at will over the heads of the M.I.T. quintet...
...Telephone," a short, comic curtain-raiser, opens the evening lightly and pleasantly. "The Medium," on the other hand, is a complete musical-dramatic synthesis which absorbs its audiences as few plays or concerts ever could. The story is a fascinating study of a fake medium who goes mad when the spirits she produces mechanically for her seances begin to appear unasked. The opera in Menotti's hands and those of the Ballet Society is far more than the usual Metropolitan parade of dummies with voices; Menotti probes far into the characters of the degenerate medium, her mute servant and kind...
...curtain-raiser is in the familiar Coward tradition of the London flat, the racy sophistication, and the intricate shadings of character. "Hands Across The Sea" Depends for plot upon simple mistaken identity; but it is into his people, not action, that Coward throws his efforts here. Basically a tour the forced for Gertrude Lawrence, the apparently flawless supporting cast is spread out in a half-dozen beautiful roles. Uneasy colonials, brash ladies, amorphic gentlemen all flow around the sparkling currents of Miss Lawrence's personality and Mr. Coward's lightest lines in a piece which is to the best degree...