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Word: remain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pops, ground with the typical fanfare and critical phraseology, have the season continued along the straight path upon which Mr. Casella has guided them so sturdily during his short period of directorship. In the last analysis, of course, the Pops must remain popular concerts, and in the present state of musical appreciation, this means the playing night after night throughout the season of those excerpts from important music that have the widest appeal. But that even here there are possibilities beyond the March Slave and The Flight of the Bumblebee has been realized by the conductor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SYMPHONY HALL | 6/5/1928 | See Source »

...compulsion. The danger moreover, as today's survey shows of neither language being learned well is often great. As long as Harvard cannot require that two languages be mastered by her students, there is little value in her requiring that two be at least dabbled in. Opportunity will always remain for the aspirant to bilingural attainments--many others would prefer to concentrate on perfecting their knowledge of a single tongue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COMPULSORY SMATTERING | 5/31/1928 | See Source »

...Hooverism, there would have been an end not only of Candidate Lowden but of his program. But the Administration, in the person of Secretary Mellon, declared itself last fortnight not so much in favor of Hooverism as receptive to it for want of anything more perfect. There seemed to remain a cranny of doubt about Candidate Hoover's ability to bring off a Republican victory. Into this cranny Candidate Lowden hastened to drive his wedge of Midwestern warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Res Publicae | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...authorities appear to be alarmed but remain apathetic. It is time something is done about it. Accordingly, we take this opportunity of asking the university authorities to remove from Oxford those who are responsible for the phenomenon, which would be faintly comic were it not apt to produce such extremely unpleasant results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buchmanites | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...blue books periodically scattered before an unappreciative student body by the College are not valueless even though they remain unfilled. If was discovered by a perusal of the current Treasurer's Report. The annual expenditure for these embryouie manuscripts totals in the College proper $1,262.53. The cost per volume and the ratio of book usage per scholar could not be ascertained although the inquiring agent was assured that the student whose inroads would earn him the title of a dollar-a-year man is rare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Financial Outlay for Examination Blue-Books Is $1,262.55--Monitor, Sanskrit Costs Form Contrast | 5/25/1928 | See Source »

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