Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearby London through one of the small observation telescopes provided for that purpose. After peering earnestly at this dome and that spire for more than an hour, the Spaniard said: "I am on my way from Spain to Iceland, and my ship stops in London harbor for only a short time. I have now seen more of London than any of my friends. I can go on to Iceland, with a satisfied heart...
...once made a burgher feel big to buy operas and plays and for a particular evening he commissioned one of each. The singers arrived, the actors arrived, but the burgher wanted his art short. Opera plus play would take too long so he ordered them run off together. On such a farcical notion did Moliere make his Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Hugo von Hofmannsthal used it for Ariadne auf Naxos for which Richard Strauss wrote the music. Last week the Strauss-von-Hofmannsthal opus, given first in Stuttgart in 1912 with Maria Jeritza, had its U. S. première-with...
This edition will contain photographs and short biographies of all students and Faculty members of the Business School, group photographs of the club and fraternity members, and articles on the Student Club, the Business school Review and the history of the Business School. The copies, of which there will be 800 printed, will be approximately 20 pages longer than last years due to the fact that the registration has increased, necessitating over 100 additional photographs and biographies...
Thorn Clark. Montana copper wars, kindled 50 years ago, are not extinguished. Bitter enemy of Anaconda is short, florid William A. Clark Jr., son of the late, short florid Senator who was the most colorful of the copper kings. Last summer. Ana conda bought the Clark interests in Mon tana for some $6,000,000. Included was the Butte Miner, personal organ of young; Clark. But Anaconda could not buy Clark's silence. He sent for a complete newspaper plant, founded the Montana Free Press (TIME, Sept. 3). Anaconda merged the Miner with the Butte edition of the Anaconda...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Frederick William Hinitt, 61, three times a college president (Parsons, Iowa-1900-04; Centre, Ky.- 1904-15; Washington & Jefferson, Pa.- 1915-18); after a short illness; at his Presbyterian rectory in Indiana, Pa. Died. W. L. Velie, 62, automobile & aircraft manufacturer; after a short illness; in Moline...