Word: torches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victim of his own previous high standards, Composer Porter will doubtless have the misfortune of hearing Red, Hot and Blue's comic number, "It's De-Love-ly," unfavorably compared with "A Picture Of Me Without You" which he wrote last year for Jubilee, and his current torch song, "Down in the Depths, On the 90th Floor," rated way below his "I Get a Kick Out of You" in Anything Goes...
...occasion last week was the 50th anniversary of the most famed piece of sculpture in the Western Hemisphere: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's 152-ft. Statue of Liberty. The statue was decorated for its birthday with an enormous U. S. flag hanging from the upraised torch...
Technical difficulties were greater than mink-chinned Sculptor Bartholdi expected. By the time the Philadelphia Exposition opened all that was ready was Liberty's torch, right hand and wrist, but that was imposing enough. An armature for a statue 152 ft. high was beyond the capabilities of Sculptor Bartholdi. He called in his friend Engineer Eiffel - already planning the tallest tower the world had ever seen - who solved the problem by designing a skeleton for Liberty in the form of a central steel mast round which are wrapped two spiral staircases, braced like a camera by a quadruped...
...precedent that bids fair to have great future importance in the spread of higher learning. The award of degrees to the savants, at which the president pledged the university to the maintenance of the free educational tradition, marked the climax of the year, for in a sense the torch of learning was taken up by new rumors and carried on toward the future. And, even more tickling than the great events within the university, was the political debacle of the man who, more than anyone else, has stood athwart the free educational stream, the present Governor of the Commonwealth...
...election demonstration at Yale featured by a torch-light procession will precede the Harvard-Yale debate at New Haven six days before the election, on Wednesday, October 28 when the two teams will discuss the subject "Resolved: That this House favors the election of Governor Alfred M. Landon as President of the United States." A crowd of 400 Yale undergraduates and others are expected to attend the debate there...