Word: uprighteously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make the meeting of the National Audubon Societies next week an explosive one by mailing to each director a copy of a pamphlet they had written: Compromised Conservation, Can the Audubon Society Explain? In it, they charged that under the direction of President Thomas Gilbert Pearson, who succeeded the upright Butcher, the Society has been shamefully catering to wealthy sportsmen and potent gun companies. They assert that President Pearson has in the name of Audubon* opposed a bill in Congress to form permanent bird refuges, favored instead the establishment of interchangeable refuges, which would some years be public shooting grounds...
...loaf of bread into eight slices. Lay one slice flat, and on it set the other seven upright. That loaf is the total of college undergraduates. The horizontal slice is the freshman class; the seven vertical slices are the residents of the seven Houses. Two of the new House Plan buildings, Dunster House and Lowell House, are ready for use; a third, Eliot House, are ready for use; a third, Eliot House, is begun. In each of the two finished Houses about 300 men, from the sophomore, junior, and senior classes, begin study this week. This year the freshmen remain...
...righteous and an upright man is Mr. Hideo Takahashi of Yamagata. Eight years ago he returned from the U. S. to the city of his birth with enough money to keep him in frugal comfort for the rest of his life. But Hideo Takahashi was not satisfied. Lacking great funds for great philanthropy, he yet wished to do something in his remaining years to express his thanks for the good things life had brought him, something to make life pleasanter for the citizens of Yamagata. He started on a campaign that soon won him the affectionate nickname of Nose Wiper...
...piano's keys that when a key is touched a code impression is recorded on a motor-driven music-roll. Thus the most idle vagaries, nuclei for many a major opus, may be preserved. Added feature is a portable keyboard superimposed on the piano keyboard (baby grand or upright) which mechanically and instantaneously transposes music into any desired key. Composing and transposing devices may be used together. A great boon should "Music Writer" be to the cinema industry. Heretofore composition for synchronized cinema has been a labor of weeks. With "Music Writer," two or three pianists may view...
...year, plus a studio, and three years of study in the American Academy at Rome) are always scholarly, conservative. Those which were announced last week to have captured the awards for 1930 were religious as well. William Marks Simpson Jr., the winning sculptor, made a youthful, upright image of St. Francis of Assisi benignly inspecting a bird. Salvatore De Maio, Prix-winning painter, achieved an interesting composition called The Complete Sacrifice, the figures of Christ, Mary and Mary Magdalene forming oblique patterns with the bars of the tilted cross from which Christ has just been removed...