Word: trims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...played there by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic. Another impressive concert commemorated the 100th birthday of the bearded little Scot who made such hearings possible. With music of a different calibre there was a newcomer at Carnegie Hall last week. She was Edith Lorand, trim, dark-haired Hungarian who fiddles and conducts an orchestra simultaneously...
...trim, white-hulled ketch Atlantis, research ship of the Woods Hole (Mass...
...trim khaki, eschewing gold braid and gaudy epaulets, the 1935 model Chinese field marshals, generals and satraps gathered in Nanking last week. Almost every Chinese of importance was there. Never before had China's Methodist Dictator, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, drawn around himself quite so many of China's military élite. Even the great has-been among Chinese war lords, strapping, whimsical and always surprising "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, trekked down from his retirement near the Tai Shan ("Sacred Mountain") to announce good humoredly that he is "now a devout Buddhist...
...without its authority a Naval School which became the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Next day Assistant Secretary Roosevelt motored over to Annapolis to help celebrate its goth anniversary of that event. From far & wide gathered thousands of old Navy men who with their families strolled the quiet, trim, tree-lined yard in a sunny haze of good fellowship and sentiment. The Founder's grandson, Wilder Dwight Bancroft, famed Cornell chemist, made a speech. From a fleet of submarine chasers and launches a "White"' force of midshipmen swept up the Severn to rout "Blue" defenders...
Bold-eyed guards stood alert at every entrance door of Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research one brisk afternoon last week. Indoors more bold-eyed guards followed John D. Rockefeller Jr. as he rambled through corridors and rooms by the side of a trim, shy, youngish man who that day was being installed as director of the Institute...