Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kochanski was enthusiastically received. His tone, while light, was charmingly lyric, and the rapid and laborious succession of double-stopped chords showed what a fine master of technique he is. Why he should have chosen the Bruch Fantasy to play, we cannot imagine. It is far too long, and the accompaniment is so heavy that it completely drowns out the violin on many occasions. There is little evidence of any Scottish characteristics except when the folk tunes themselves appear. At times we are reminded of an inferir "Rheingold". The work, however, has always been a favorite with violinists...
Yesterday our excavators made rapid progress toward what appears to be the centre of the University. What promises to be the most interesting discovery to date was made in uncovering a small, well-preserved building on the edge of the area, which had the appearance of an office. Inside, stacked in huge piles along the walls and hanging from the ceiling were bunches of broad leaves of a tropical plant popularly known as elephant's ear. These leaves were tied together by the stems in uniform bunches. They had dried smoothly and lay close together like sheets of paper...
...mass of documents" he has extracted "a limited number of situations" which he has put together "to make five subjects, each complete in itself and offering possibilities for production on the English and American stage." He has cut the "long, rather tedious dialogues" of the original and has "written rapid dramatic scenes giving an actor full opportunity to work himself into the spirit of the part". Working on that basis there is no reason why a Japanese student of English drama should not cut "Hamlet" of all its language, and leave only its basic melodrama "to give an actor full...
Beyond the immediate advantage from this innovation can be seen a greater end. The present quarters of the Business School are cramped and antiquated. If the School continues to expand at its present rapid rate, both in quality and in range, more adequate quarters will become indispensable...
Moving pictures of the regatta at New London last June in which the University and Yale crews participated will be shown in the Living Room of the Union on Monday night, December 5, at 7.45 o'clock. The pictures, which were taken by the ultra-rapid camera to bring out the form used in rowing, will be shown under the auspices of the crew management, and will be open, free of charge, to all members of the University...