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Word: tender (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first concert of its 13th season before a friendly, congenial audience that radiated enthusiasm over the orchestra, the program and Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Beethoven and Brahms wrote the important music for the evening-the Lenore Overture No. 3, and Brahms' First Symphony in C Minor with its tender upward sweep of strings, the sombre throbbing of basses and tympanums, bravely building, mellow, wise. Debussy and Liszt furnished the spice- Nuages and Fêtes, vague, lovely, and the Second Hungarian Rhapsody, vigorous, breathless. Conductor Gabrilowitsch did his work well, won for himself an ovation, a wreath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Orchestras | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

Dying of cancer in her sixties in a Pacific coast boom town, with loutish roomers clumping overhead and with no love left for her patient, tender, ineffectual husband, Myra was bitter over her self-defeat, until the end. Passion had made her a lowly bed; she had writhed on it for years. She still could laugh at some of life's absurdities. Some of its beauty was still warm to her-Heine's poems, her own lovely hands. But her steely pride was turned upon itself, 'her mortal enemy. Not even religion could resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Oct. 18, 1926 | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

That worn old Eastern saint, the tender glow...

Author: By D. C. Backus l., | Title: All Kinds and Conditions of Verse | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

Early in the first half, Captain Sturtevant of Andover kicked a goal from a scrimmage in front of the Harvard net, and for the rest of the period a barrage of shots was poured at Edward Salmon, the Freshman goal-tender. His stellar play prevented Andover from scoring any more in this stanza...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN BOW TO ANDOVER, 2 to 0 | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...office for 17 years, has accomplished many striking and notable changes in the life of the University, has donated ... a considerable part of his personal fortune. . . ." True, true. But then, ah, then came the sting. "The time is certainly not far distant," wrote the unmentionable one, "when he will tender his resignation and commence the enjoyment of a well-earned repose." Facts are all very well, but some facts simply are not discussed without provocation. Here, with Dr. Lowell in his vigorous prime, was no provocation. Harvard men raged-or chuckled-as the overweening one proceeded to anatomize the five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard Irked | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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