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Word: turning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hoped that the number of players in the orchestra can be larger than in past years. If the large turn-out from the Class of 1932 is any indication, the incoming Freshman Class of 1933 should provide a large number of new musicians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIERIAN SODALITY TO GIVE ANNUAL TRY-OUTS | 9/21/1929 | See Source »

...inclined to believe that training in general literature, in world history, in the humanities if one prefers that term, did turn out a product that was educated to an enjoyment and appreciation of life that is the exception rather than the rule in the mass product of today. Today no student can hope to master any science, the laws of banking or the laws of trade. He can only touch the outer circle in medicine or law. The fields have become too large. If he attempts too much, he scatters his energies. If he concentrates too much, he becomes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 9/21/1929 | See Source »

...they acquired virtually the sanctity of banknotes. Two of the drafts, indeed, were cashed before their illegitimate origin was discovered; on the third?the $225,000 draft to the Pueblo bank?the Chase bank refused payment in order to make a test case, go into court and turn the problem over to the law?or rather the lawyers? of the land. Certainly the defrauded banks were sadly tricked. On the other hand the innocently profiting banks have legally collected a legal debt and, considering the Bank of Telluride's condition, they perhaps received their money in the only manner that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waggoner's Gesture | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Chapel Hill, N. C., one Harry Meacham, college student, played bridge, had bad luck. Annoyed, he laid a gun on the table, declared: "I'm going to shoot the next person who deals me a sorry hand." When his turn came he dealt himself a Yarborough,* picked up his pistol, killed himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Lion | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...precariously, striding along the Nietzschean tightrope. For all his self-sufficiency Beethoven could "never see a pretty face without being smitten." But a love-affair, he boasted, never lasted longer than seven months. He loved three cousins, his aristocratic pupils, Tesi, 25, Pepi, 21, and passionate Giulietta, 16. "by turn and all together." June Prime. The great eight-noted motive of the Eroica, clue to Beethoven's per- sonality, battles, loves, multiplies, resurrects itself, dances, dies. The Eroica is "one of the Great Days of music. It inaugurates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: He-Artist | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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