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Word: second (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred and fifty people attended the debate, second in the current inter-House series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL DEBATERS DEFEAT FUNSTERS | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

Brilliantly describing the course of events leading to Angle-American friendship in the feverish years of imperialism which closed the last century, James P. Baxter, III, President of Williams, gave last night in New Lecture Hall his second of three lectures on diplomatic relations between America and England since the Civil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baxter Delivers Second Discourse On U. S. History | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

...fact that M.I.T. is offering several good technical and mathematical courses in this subject is far from being a spur to Harvard's Department of Geography. On the one hand, fears that a meteorological course would only be a poor second to the courses at Tech., and, on the other hand, the knowledge that no one could teach an elementary course in the subject as well as the late Professor Ward of Harvard, have persuaded members of the Department to omit five vital courses. Certainly Professor Brooks is more than competent to give an introductory course, and failing him, there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD-OLD-DAYS POLICY | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

Charles Bickford staggers bravely through "The Storm," which takes place at sea and nearly prevents Nan Grey from draining Preston Foster's appendices which needed draining. It is a messy but moderately interesting second feature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

...originally a chamber work first performed in 1901. The orchestral version was not bought out until 1907. Inspiration of the work comes from the eighth Eclogue of Virgil, the subject of which consists of two love songs sung by Damon and Alphesiboeus. The poetic basis is found in the second love song in which a Thessalian girl has restored to magic incantations in hope that she may bring back here truant lover Daphnis. As she chants, she repeats again and again, "Ducite ab urbe domum, mea carmina, ducite Daphnim." (Draw from the city, my songs, draw Daphne home"). This refrain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

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