Word: torches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program follows: Fair Harvard March, "Our Director" Bigelow Overture to "The Calif of Bagdad" Boieldieu Waltz, "Imperial" Strauss Ballet Egyptain Luigini 1. Allegro non troppo 2. Allegretto 3. Andante sostenuto 4. Andante espressivo Serenade Drigo Three Dances from "Henry VIII" German 1. Morris Dance 2. Shepherd Dance 3. Torch Dance Cortege Gounod
...become twice as brilliant are supposed to be in about the same stage of development as our sun, the latter too might at any time flare up as the stars have done; and if it did, the intense heat would consume everything on earth as fiercely as an acetyline torch licks up a few blades of grass. This unpleasant assumption is based on mere conjecture. It is a known fact, however, that these variable stars eventually drop back to their original magnitude or brilliancy...
...shoes at 10,000, a liter of milk 48, and other commodities in proportion. From these figures it is evident that the mass of people is swiftly losing its buying power. This means, in the long run: hunger. And the unequivocal teaching of history is that hunger is the torch of revolution...
...century later, the activities of Harvard undergraduates in carrying out religiously the spirit and the letter of the "Hard Cider" campaign of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", led to certain unpleasantness with officials in Cambridge-port. Campaigns in the "Colleges in Cambridge in New England" have always been featured by torch-light processions stump-speeches, charges and counter-charges as vigorous and often as vituperative as those in an alderman's election in a closely contested ward...
...commerce, and editors of trade papers to meet this week at the Philadelphia Navy Yard." It is not too big a meeting when the tonnage involved runs into the millions. Part of it will be actual scrapping, we presume, as when Mr. Ford offers to wave the magic acetylene torch and turn gun-turrets into livers. Part of the scrapping will be figurative for the Government is offering for sale old cruisers, convertible into merchant ships. But, obviously, the thing is more than a job; it is an industry...