Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commenting on the state of the Program, the publicity director said that the major activity at present is the effort to procure large gifts from both alumni and non-alumni. He added that national alumni contributions are $2 million short of the proposed goal and may not reach it by the end of the year...
Like a travesy on the preposterous state of American patriotism, this short subject on The Face of Lincoln precedes a grim and experienced movie made by Europeans about the second World...
Domenico Cimarosa was a fast and witty writer of Italian opera who cranked out some 65 works in a comparatively short lifetime (he died at 51). The only one that survives is No. 49-a comic opera titled ll Matrimonio Segreto, which pleased Austria's Emperor Leopold II so much at the premiere that he demanded a repeat of the entire score as an encore. Last week Manhattan concertgoers turned out to sample another side of Cimarosa's musical personality. The occasion: the first known public performance of a requiem Mass written by Cimarosa in Russia...
...reason for the steady market rise is heightened demand for a short supply of stocks. Though the average daily volume of stocks has more than tripled in the last ten years to 4,000,000, the number of shares listed has increased only 2½ times, to 4.9 billion. This year the situation has worsened; with industry operating below capacity in the recession, it had little need to go out after additional capital to expand. Result: the New York Stock Exchange added only 112 million new shares for the first nine months this year, compared to 271 million added...
...Since then, IBM has gone up from 191 to 5.588, counting splits and stock dividends, while A.T. & T. has gone only from 165 to 200%. Harold Clayton of Hemphill, Noyes calculates that the average would now be at 1830, and other experts figure it at 910. All used different short-cut computations. To get the correct figure, it would be necessary to recompute the Dow-Jones average for every market day since 1939 -a task to challenge Univac...