Word: tans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...symphony Israel, as played last week by the Cleveland Orchestra in Manhattan, was full of the woes of "a pious and sinful people." Full of fear of Jehovah, despair of stricken souls, anguished groping for light, the music was illustrated upon the vast stage by figures in tan and black flowing robes. Men of the priestly order (among them Dancer Michio Ito), mourning women bearing lighted candles, suppliants in prayer shawls, a pilgrim, the Ba'al Tokea, moved against the austere background of the enormous Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, achieved the spirit of Isaiah crying...
Pennsylvania opened the game with two scores in the first two minutes and followed with two more in close succession before the first period ended, while the University horsemen were getting accustomed to the tan bark floor. Penn scored three goals in the second chukker and two more in the third. In the fourth chukker, however, the Crimson riders scored five goals in as many minutes over the Pennsylvania riders...
...interfraternity league is as follows: Won Lost Alpha Sigma Phi 11 0 1.000 Sigma Omega Psi 8 4 .667 Tau Epsilon Phi 8 4 .667 Sigma Alpha Mu 7 4 .636 Lambda Chi Alpha 8 5 .615 Delta Upsilon 5 8 .385 Phi Epsilon Pi 2 10 .167 Tan Delta...
Concluded the good Bishop with ardor: "The greatest single rubber operator in the world is a Chinese named Tan Kah-kee with headquarters in Singapore...
Manhattan rubbermen recalled that rubber tycoon Tan Kah-kee is a slender, old fashioned Chinaman some five feet two inches tall and about fifty years of age. He founded his rubber business in 1910 at Singapore, and now enjoys a. fabulous income which enables him to live luxuriously at Amoy, on the coast of Southern China. Uneducated in the western sense, and speaking only Chinese & Malayan, he has a passion for educational philanthropies and makes up each year the large deficit of a university which he founded at Amoy. He has several times visited Europe but professes an unalterable resolve...