Word: sylvane
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Twenty-six miles north of Harvard University is the sylvan town of Harvard. On a wooded hill of Harvard town last week assembled a congeries of learned men and not a few women. An imaginative person versed in pagan lore might have guessed that this company in the woods was a sabbat of warlocks and witches who had coursed here from coverts in every cranny of the world. For they talked of things beyond ordinary men's ken?of island universes racing 7,000 miles a second, of the universe exploding into chaos, of the moon's shadow...
...glittering, impersonal kind of music that people have come to associate with the Ravel so notedly fastidious about his neckties, his pastries, his home-grown hot-house flowers. Bostonians liked the soloing of Pianist Jesus Maria Sanroma. Philadelphians were just as pleased with Pianist Sylvan Levin. In both cities the urbane Ravel has become so popular that his Concerto was accepted unquestioningly as a big event of the season...
...Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A quiet glance at the Indian wikiup in Vice President Curtis' office. More formal calls, and Premier Laval moved into the White House for 18 hours of residence and sweating work. On the third day Guest Laval moved to stop overnight at Woodley, sylvan retreat of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. There the work, ceaseless and secret, went...
...Chicagoans begins to operate and they wish to turn the subject of conversation away from politics and gangsters, one of the safest and happiest topics they can bring up is wonderful season of summer opera at Ravinia on the North Shore. There, in an all, fresco theatre amidst a sylvan park, stars from the Metropolitan and other leading companies sing nightly before large audiences. Ravinia is about 20 miles from Chicago, but the perfection of the music and the beauty of its setting lead thousands to travel there regularly by motor or train...
...years he was with Stone & Webster, Boston engineers. In leisure time he wrote such books as The Economy of Happiness, The Politics of Utility, The Happiness of Nations, Americanized Socialism, The Logic of Conduct. Five years ago he quit Stone & Webster, and moved from stuffy Cambridge, Mass.. to sylvan Hanover, N. H. To students of Dartmouth, where he is a visiting lecturer in philosophy, he is an aloof though smiling mystery who teaches them how to think clearly, argue effectively...