Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side of a hill in the south-western part of this region lies a settlement of twelve small houses dominated by a large building. The country is usually quiet on warm Spring evenings, but now an atmosphere of gayety pervades the place. Girls wearing beautiful dresses and boys trailing them are running in the direction of the parent building where a dance is progressing...
Nina, Anthony and Socrates were three of the 879 students of Manhattan's Music School Settlement, largest and second oldest-institution of its kind in the U. S. * The occasion: The Music School Settlement's annual uptown concert. But few of the children who performed at last week's concert are likely to become ambition-mad prodigies or struggling virtuosos. They are more likely to become mothers and fathers, sober citizens whose lives have been made more interesting through the study of music. For Manhattan's Music School Settlement, like Greater New York...
...school's thousands of former students have become professional concert soloists, among them the young pianists Ray Lev, Tessa Bloom and Sylvia Smith. Nearly all of the great U. S. symphony orchestras have a member or two who once studied at the Music School Settlement. Of these successful alumni good-humored Director Chaffee and his staff are proud. Still prouder are they of the fact that in all of its 44 years not one of the Music School Settlement's thousands of pupils has ever been haled before a juvenile court...
Intense fighting was continuing at 2 a.m. and additional areas of the city, which has a normal population of 250,000 including about 38 Americans and 189 Britons, were in flames. The U.S. Gunboat Asheville was prepared to evacuate Americans from the international settlement on Kulangsu Island at any moment...
Most surprising feature of the accord was the settlement of the land annuities. Since 1932 "Dev" has stoutly insisted that Eire would never pay a single penny and the back payments meanwhile accumulated at the rate of some $20,000,000 a year. In settling for a lump $50,000,000 "Dev" drove the British to a hard bargain-the annuities were due to run until 1990, would have reached a total...