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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then explained why there was no really well developed English music. "There is no English type of music, no English school because the composers don't all run on one track. We have a number of very good writers, but they all represent different opinions. There is no unity, no real English school and that is largely because we have no typical folk-song. Yet the people are musical; in London alone we have 4000 choral societies," he remarked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANCIENT ORIGIN OWNED BY JAZZ SAYS BEECHAM | 1/17/1928 | See Source »

...rubber man of Indo-China was pinned under the playwright's microscope and allowed to squirm heroically into the blessed state of matrimony. Scourges of the tropics?heat, drought, insects, dust?add to his squirms. He passes an uncomfortable and highly monosyllabic evening. He is the strong & silent type of rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 16, 1928 | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

Refinements on the familiar, far too heavy Diesel engine are reported by Mr. Sperry after years of research. The new motor weighs close to the lightest gasoline engine; is capable of delivering speed and horsepower comparable to good racing motors of the normal type. Experts read the news with deepest interest, hoping that widespread tests will confirm Mr. Sperry's belief that the new power plant meets every air requirement ; that by elimination of the fire hazard it will add an enormous safety factor to flying; particularly for commercial and passenger planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Refined | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...worst type of criminal in the United States today is one like George Remus", were the words of C. P. Taft II, in an interview last night with the CRIMSON, after he had spoken to a capacity audience at ford Hall on "Crime and Its Treatment". "He is a murderer, a bootlegger, and in every way a vicious criminal. He should have been electrocuted without any question, and not have been allowed to escape the chair under the plea of insanity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAFT SUGGESTS REMEDIES FOR PRESENT CRIME WAVE | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...There is no mistake either of fact or emphasis in the whole article. It seems in fact the perfect type of historical writing. The knowledge on which it is based is so broad and so mature that Professor Coolidge never had to stop the flow of his reader's thought by introduction of small facts as so many modern historians feel that they have to do."COOLIDGE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Loses Noted Scholar in Death of A. C. Coolidge Saturday | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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