Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...improvement in the Junior class is notable not only in the increased percentage of men in the first three groups, but also in the decreased percentage of students with unsatisfactory records, there being this year only 38, or 5.6 per cent of these as opposed to 67, or 10.2 per cent last year at this time. The class of 1927 also improved its own record for last year at this when 110 of its members were on the Dean's List. The present Junior class was the first class to enter under the new requirements and a large number...
...China Mr. Daniel v. Thompson '22, and Mr. Allan Clark, the American sculptor, also joined the party. The expedition reached its objective the caves of Tun Huang, but owing to the unsettled conditions in China it was not possible to work in the Caves or to procure the photographic record which was hoped for. The members of the expedition were allowed to go under guard to the caves on three days only. Mr. Jayne, was the leader of the party at this time...
...freshman No. 5, appeared to pull his chin down on his chest turtlewise. His shoulders sagged forward, his oar dragged. In a bit, he was rowing well again, but the race was over. Gliding along four lengths ahead, Cambridge spurted at the end, came within a minute of the record (18 min., 29 sec., established in 1911), shook hands all around as fresh as fresh...
...evening over the radio, said a gracious goodbye to a million listeners-in and sailed two hours later for Europe. Her season's earnings were estimated at approximately $120,000 -$60,000 for 16 weeks of opera at the Metropolitan, $40,000 for concerts, $20,000 from Victor record royalties and additional "items." She directed that any damages recovered from her $25,000 suit against the Cohen Brothers, cigar manufacturers of the Bronx, for using her name on a cigar band, be given to charity...
...doubtful, but it compares favorably, nevertheless, with that introduced at the trial. Furthermore the zeal of the attorney-general upon that occasion so far transcended the bounds of ordinary legal ethics as to bring sharp criticism from the journals of opinion. And although circumstantial evidence and the past record of Chapman point very strongly to his guilt, the treatment accorded to him by the Connecticut bench will always be viewed by unprejudiced observers as a sign of the "crime-wave" hysteria which has been undermining the ordinarily cautious procedure of our courts...