Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have recently learned o the preparations being made by students as Harvard and elsewhere for a nation-wide "anti-war strike." As a Harvard graduate, I should like the use of some of your space to comment upon this matter...
...effects of the capitalist system. As long as capitalism lasts, war will constantly threaten. Whether students or any other group are for or against war makes little difference. Wars come irrespective of the wishes of those who must fight them. The basic cause of war today is the world-wide search for markets for the goods turned out by industry. He who would eliminate war must bend his energies to eliminating that which causes war. And so long as goods are produced for sale, there will be capitalists, who, whether they like it or not, must expand or lose...
Baronova, whose dancing has a pure emotional quality, seemed well watched by her zealous parents who have accompanied their pretty daughter on the three U. S. tours. In Columbus, Ohio two months ago the wide-eyed Baronova suddenly disappeared. She had eloped with Gerald Sevastianov, Colonel de Basil's handsome young secretary...
...learned all there was to know about the commercial paper business, was with the banking and commercial paper house of Bond & Goodwin in 1929 when Eugene Meyer, then Federal Farm Loan Commissioner, telephoned him from Washington. After that long-distance interview he became a fiscal agent, with his amazingly wide acquaintance among U. S. bankers, acquired in distributing commercial paper, as his most valuable asset. A large, plump, kindly man with close-cropped hair, Mr. Dunn raises prize roses at his home in Westfield, N. J. He can never remember their botanical names...
...Florentine musician in the court of the Duke of Mantua named Claudio Monteverde produced one of the first real operas. This work, "L'Orfeo", was revolutionary in character for it employed a wide varsity of musical forms as well as utilising what was then an unusually large orchestra. From this opera, two orchestral interludes titled Sinfonie and Ritornelli are to be played by the Symphony, providing an excellent seventeenth century balance for the rest of the program...