Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...villa, "Ainola," in the forests some 30 mi. north of the capital, not expecting a visit from even one of his five married daughters. Yet for him his 72nd birthday will be more important than his work. A good part of his day will be spent "working in undisturbed peace." His Eighth Symphony, for which the world has been waiting twelve years, is drawing towards completion. So perhaps is his life's work. As a level-headed countryman, he knows that, having passed three score and ten, none of his remaining vigor need be spared for fripperies...
...instructor. In his mature years he confessed to an early ambition to become a great violinist. The respectable Sibelius family, however, considered a career as a musician too precarious. They suggested law, and for a time the young composer dutifully pegged away at the University of Helsingfors. But he spent all his spare time composing and studying harmony with Martin Wegelius at the Music Institute...
...appears from the air. At the Pole it shows the comrades jubilant, efficient, comfortable. They brush teeth, sluice bearded faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights on a 9-foot-thick ice floe. (Four scientists have already spent six months of an anticipated year there.) Camera study: chief conqueror Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt, parka and bosky beard a wreath of icicles. Christmas touch: an antlered reindeer team prancing under the low wing of one of the giant four-motored ANT6 monoplanes...
Under this system, the first two years of higher education would be spent in junior colleges, and the latter two universities which would thus drop their freshman and sophomore classes. Recalling the commanding position of New England institutions he asserted that the new plan would effect them also, "whether they like...
...Concord River" by William Brewster, with twelve illustrations by Frank W. Benson, 259 pages, $3.50. The author was one of the greatest American ornithologists, and spent his life in the study of birds...