Word: touring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, bent himself into an awkward bow at the piano, and played superbly Bach's Partita No. 2 in C Minor, three Scarlatti sonatas, Schumann's C Major Fantasia and the first book of Debussy preludes. He was Walter Gieseking, come from Germany for another extended tour,* and he played, as he has always played, music that he himself has tried truly and found good...
...Gieseking's tour this season includes Boston, Manhattan, Birmingham, Ala., Cincinnati, Buffalo, Duluth, Chicago, Houston, Memphis, Tulsa, Dallas, Detroit, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Havana, Columbus (Miss.), Daytona Beach, Tampa...
...with Capt. Ignacio Iglesias, from Spain towards India. After 27 hours flying a sandstorm forced them down in Mesopotamia. Germany: Capt. Herman Koehl-in the Bremen from Ireland to Labrador. France: Capt. Dieudonné Costés-with Lieut. Commander Joseph Lebrix, on a 35,000-mile world aerial tour. Italy: Capt. Ferrarin. In Latin America the best flyers were: Venezuela, Capt. Manuel Rios, Ecuador, Capt. Luis Mantilla; Bolivia, Major Santalla Estrella...
...plan for the selection of the teams, to make the dual Spring trip, was announced last night. This dual trip will extend as far west as Des Moines, Iowa, and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia. Two teams will leave at the same time, one for the western tour, the other for the southern trip. The teams will be chosen during the first week in March by a board of judges which will probably include Celian Ufford '19, instructor in public speaking at Harvard, and E. M. Rowe '27. Both are coaches of the Harvard Debating Council. The judges will...
...Hodson has been making a tour of the United States, speaking, on Eugenics. She talked yesterday before a meeting of the Harvard Liberal Club "Many people first felt," she said, "that fear of pregnancy was the great upholder of morality, and pointed to the fast that in England, where there are no laws against the spread of information on birth control, prostitution has decidedly lessened. But indeed, the spread of contraception has led to a newer and truer morality, based on a saner view of sex problems. Many, also, have feared birth control, except in medical necessity, as leading...