Word: strings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practice game yesterday afternoon, the first baseball team downed a second string nine...
...much is Publisher Hearst worth, not as a citizen, but in dollars. It would be modest to start at $25,000,000 for his string of magazines. It would be modest to add $20,000,000 for his biggest moneymaker, the New York American. It would be modest to lump his 20-odd other newspapers at $50,000,000. It is hard to price his vast holdings in Mexican realty, but $10,000,000 would not be overrating them. And much property in California and elsewhere must be added. Shrinking the total to be thoroughly conservative, a guesser might safely...
Only 26 years ago, he made his first joyful noise unto the Lord from Trenton, N. J. At 6, he began composing. At 10, he was a violin virtuoso, playing with string quartets in Budapest, Warsaw, Berlin, At 13, he had written his first symphony. Since 20, he has lived abroad and astonished the world. In France, he has been called "the most important U. S. composer...
...string Quartette and a number of other selections by the Vocal and Banjo Clubs, concluded by the customary "Fair Harvard" presented by the combined Clubs will finish the evening's program...
...fine lenses. At his leisure he smoked a pipe of tobacco. His sport was spider-fighting. Hunting out two aggressive spiders, he would embattle them and watch with glee through a magnifying glass. Or, feeling more domestic, he would catch flies, throw them into the web of his first-string fighter and relish the savage banquet. Drawing was his polite accomplishment, an amateur skilled in cartooning his friends' oddities with a pencil. Struck by the refractory habits of light, he composed "A Treatise on the Rainbow...