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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the thirteenth competition for the trophy which was given to the Topiarian Club by an unknown donor, and is competed for annually. The name of the winner is inscribed on the trophy, of which he has the custody until the next competition...
...inclusion of the work of young composers in the University and out in this year's concert is in line with the Sodality's policy of experimentation with relatively unknown and less conventional music, a policy newly entered upon this season...
...book written completely in an unknown tongue...
...book written completely in an unknown tongue tends somewhat to lack interest. The average American will go docilely to listen to a play in Russian or Italian or French, though the nicer turns of phrase leave him relatively cold. There are always redeeming features. There are the coiling hands of Duse. There is the highly cultivated naturalness of the Moscow players. There are the snakes and daggers and dark shadows of the Grand Guignol...
...formally inaugurated and functioned without loss of a single day until the Mayan records were destroyed by the Spanish Inquisition in Yucatan, in 1561 A. D. These dates, positively fixed by inscriptions in the Mayan city of Copan, in western Honduras, were probably set by one man, an unknown mathematical and astronomical genius who was unquestionably one of the greatest scientists of all time. The Mayas set the beginning of the world in 3373 B. C., counting back from their fixed date seven cycles of 144,000 days each. The perfection of the Mayan calendar required the invention...