Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sake of singing itself is infinitely superior to an older professional group if the purely technical problems of fullness of tone and precision of performance can be overcome. The success of Mr. Woodworth in obtaining results of high professional standard from the student choir, in spite of the tremendous size of the yearly schedule, has provided this community with just such a chorus...
This slothfulness can arise only from ignorance of the size of the evil. The tutoring poison has permeated the whole organism; it leaves little untouched. Examinations are no test of knowledge when the examined have had the questions spotted or stolen for them in advance by academic hijackers and have been crammed with the answers. An acceptable thesis means nothing when the material has been organized or the whole paper has been written by a tutoring school. A course credit is no fitting reward when the recipient has not turned a hand to secure it. A diploma is a valueless...
Italian explanations of why it had become "necessary" to take over Albania were more grimly humorous than usual. Mountainous Albania, about the size of Vermont, was already an Italian economic dependency. With its population of only 1,000,000, with few industries, no railroads, precious little natural wealth, Albania could not plausibly be pictured as a menace to powerful Fascist Italy, but some attempt was made to do so. Even more ludicrous were the Fascist press claims that: 1) Italians were showing their undying love for the Albanians; 2) King Zog, heretofore an unusually obliging Italian puppet, had recently shown...
...famous dandy and fashion arbiter, Richard ("Beau") Nash, the Pump Room Orchestra (now conducted by handsome Maurice Miles) has given concerts in Bath's Pump Room for 234 uninterrupted years. Last week word leaked out that the famous Pump Room Orchestra was to be disbanded. Reason: for its size, Bath's orchestra had set a new record in box-office flops. This year's expected deficit...
Probably the most storied newspaper of its size in the world, the Paris Herald, as most Americans call it (Parisians call it Le New York), has lived through three distinct careers, under three publishers. Each career has reflected the condition and aspirations of its readers-the Americans who live in Europe. Founded in 1887 by the late great James Gordon Bennett, it was for three decades a society paper for those expatriates of whom Henry James liked to write. It carried whole pages of yachting news, maintained its own coach to Versailles, was written in two languages, with the somewhat...