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First University--Stroke T. N. Perkins '31; 7, M. H. MacKusick '29; 6, F. E. Farnsworth '36; 5, J. Q. Adams '31; 4, W. W. Ames '31; 3, Harper Woodward '31; 2, W. K. Tack '31; bow, R. S. Heiden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY CREWS END PRELIMINARY SEASON | 4/6/1929 | See Source »

...review headed "Attaboy. " Critic Newman had called the $10,000 "a fair price for a fair symphony which is what Atterberg has delivered f. o. b. as per esteemed order of yesterday's date, and hoping for continuation of valued custom.";,Composer Atterberg took the same tack, let his laughter reverberate through the press: that all along he had meant it only as a joke; that he had deliberately plagiarized and that only one critic had guessed. The $10,000 was his, he said, and the laugh on them. But to many it seemed singularly empty laughter. The Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Swedish Joker | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...manufacturers conferred, last week, on problems of growing competition. From the conference, there emerged, tentatively, an agreement. Welshmen said they would not compete in Canada and South America, where U. S. capital is invested in the food packing industry, large user of tin plate. U. S. manufacturers promised to tack away from the European markets, pre-War stronghold of the Welsh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tinconfabulation | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...campaign for their emancipation, when Allan Meyer, who had combined the positions of Justice of the Peace and manager of the moving picture theater, took up the standard of Sunday movies and opened his theater. Haled to court and made to pay a fine, he launched a counter-at-tack and set out to show the town what a real blue Sunday was like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JERSEY SABBATH | 6/12/1928 | See Source »

...Institutes have reached a total of 52?from tack and nail makers and dry-milk manufacturers to consulting engineers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rubber | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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