Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich he does not know what to do with his money, he nevertheless complains bitterly about two things: 1) having to walk downstairs to answer the telephone at night and 2) having to pay 70% of his income to the Government. For a while he dabbled with a string of race horses, has lately bought up and combined Toronto's Globe and Mail & Empire (TIME, Nov. 30). But he admits that newspapers bore him, and no one has yet discovered why he set up his broker, C. George McCullagh, as a bigtime publisher...
Undoubtedly the decline and fall of debating at Harvard stems in no small part form the disarray and disorganization of the Council itself. Except for important radio debates and the large intercollegiate meetings, little attention has been paid by the officers in charge, and many second string debaters have been cut off in the bud and denied the chance to parade their wares at more modest encounters in and about the college. Coupled to this has been a lack of available coaching from experts in the trade, and thus many who would like to compete in minor and informal engagements...
...Stradivarius Quartet, certainly one of the finest string groups in America, is to give a concert in Fogg this evening at 8 p.m. This is an excellent opportunity to hear chamber music well played and the occasion should not be missed...
Bored Paris correspondents know that more than one blase second-string Continental newswoman gets her best interviews by giving herself and thinks little of the exchange, but they listened to the shooting diarist's quickly hired Paris lawyer. His story was that Ambassador de- Chambrun had broken off a French woman's great romance with the Italian Dictator, and so naturally she shot him. "Naturellement, Messieurs! Mark you, gentlemen, the great love of her life, a love which she could not master!" Although Dictator Mussolini and Dictator Hitler have just linked their countries in a close pact, official...
According to the patient's story yesterday noon, he returned from a movie shortly before 11 o'clock Monday night. Finding difficulty in locating the light string. Perkins lit a match, which dropped on a pile of papers on his desk...