Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortunate exception to the new company's conservatively cautious program was an excellent production of Purcell's "Fairy Queen." This piece, officially a "masque," is an adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" written by Purcell and an anonymous poet and has not been produced (except for a short revival at Oxford and Cambridge in the '20's) since the seventeenth century. The adapting was rather liberal and none of Shakespeare is actually put to music. But in keeping with the tradition of the masque (an early and predominantly English musical form of combined opera and ballet) Purcell includes many...
...college days are all too short...
Softened by the low calibre of their recent opposition, Coach "Moe" Berg's Yardling cagers ran into a slick Exeter Academy yesterday afternoon and as the final whistle blew found themselves on the short end of a 64 to 58 score. It was the second defeat of the season for the Freshmen...
Conant is slated to give a short address to the assembled student body during the regular 10 o'clock chapel period. Folon atomic energy and its potentialities lowing his talk President Conant will be awarded the degree...
...should be ruled trifles, he said: ". . . An employer is not entitled to deduct trifling personal-pursuit periods. . . . And an employe should not be entitled to . . . trifling periods of preliminary activity. . . . If portal-to-portal compensation is granted, then the employer will be entitled to keep track of and deduct short periods spent in personal pursuits." Asked Judge Picard: "You think we might do an ultimate injustice to the worker by granting portal-to-portal compensation?" Answered Sonnett: "Yes. . . . On the facts of this case the play is not worth the candle...