Word: text
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economize on food. Beethoven still had the detachment to sit down and write the last great quartets. He died shaking his fist at a storm which was beating against his window. But Herriot. the preacher of peace, does not end his book there. He takes for a final text the choral ending to the Ninth Symphony, pleads, as did Beethoven, for a brotherhood...
...extensive activities of the committee will begin this morning with the distribution of Thanksgiving baskets to several needy families in Cambridge. In addition to forming a nucleus from the Class of 1939, the duties of the committee will involve supervision of all clothing and text book drives in the Yard, direction of Red Cross campaigns, and distribution of Christmas dinners...
...same time the products of last spring's text book drive have made possible the loan of 767 textbooks to 225 needy students, though Stephen Van N. Powelson '38, chairman of the Loan Library Committee, has announced that continued applications have made necessary a new drive...
...Congressional Record. Photographs, drawings, cartoons he culled from the files of old magazines. When each chapter was finished, he had 50 copies of it printed, sent them around for correction, addition, criticism to surviving participants in the events concerned. Sifting his replies, he used some in revising his text, sprinkled others in a multitude of fascinating footnotes. Author Sullivan estimates the number of his voluntary collaborators at close to 100,000. Portentous is the first of their contributions to appear, on page 40 of Vol. I, published in 1926. It is embodied in a footnote dropped from a sentence beginning...
...Fisted." This is a rollicking farce featuring Lee Tracy and Roscoe Kearns as manager and broken-down fighter, who save Gail Patrick and her son from the wiles of her no-good husband. As butler and first man, Lee Tracy and Roscoe Kearns are uproariously ridiculous puzzling over a text on the duties of a butler, setting a table, and insulting guests. To preserve the honor and wealth of the household, Kearns takes on a strong plug-ugly backed by the nefarious husband, and finally manages to clout him into a somnabulistic state when the other fighter was not looking...