Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second, Andrew Marshall, Jr. '34, 4 min. 38 sec; third, Andrew E. Ritchie, Jr. '34, 4 min. 41 sec; fourth, H. Adams Carter '36, 5 min. 29 sec; fifth, Charles H. Lawrence 3rd '36; 5 min. 34 sec; sixth, Edward P. Davis '34, 5 min. 40 sec; seventh, Charles E. Rogers '37, 6 min. 9 sec; eigth, John U. White...
...Distribution of Goods under the Recovery Act" was discussed Tuesday evening by Howard T. Lewis, professor of Marketing, in the seventh informal radio program of "Twentieth Century Ideas." This series, which is broadcast Tuesday evenings at 8.45 o'clock over WBZ, features brief talks by Harvard professors. The programs, given weekly at the invitation of the National Broadcasting Company, are under the direction of Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology...
...finger over several keys, known as glissando, has been popularized by the radio comedians Jake and Lena, and organists devoid of taste are doing it in church. The same thing is true of the man who injects shaving-parlor chords into a hymn, and Sweet Adeline harmonization, and dominant-seventh Amens, and too much tremolo. . . . I should not permit him to play dizzy chromatics, or anything else, during the Lessons and prayers. What is to be done? Tell him in the gentlest, but most priestly manner, that all these tricks of the jazz radio organist are utterly out of place...
...Hofnagel is a well-to-do farmer of the Pennsylvania Dutch country, known and respected from Allentown to Lancaster as a potent "hex-doctor." A seventh son, he believes implicitly in his own powers. He informs a village woman that if she would know which of several suitors to accept, she should put initialed onions beneath her pillow, be guided by the onion that sprouts first. For a lovecharm he prescribes a drop of blood in a glass of water. To keep witches out of a churn he recommends a hot flatiron. Benign, fond of his family, Father Hofnagel spits...
Thereafter Tilden got less and less rest. When the touring tennists left Denver each had won four matches. Then Vines took two in succession. At Los Angeles last week Vines won his seventh. That match lasted four hours and made tennis history when Tilden finally took a 44-game set. At Long Beach two nights later it was Vines who needed rest. He blew up, dropped two miserable sets...