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...chorus--Glee Club and Choral Society--has never done more justice to music than in "For unto us a Child is born," "His yoke is easy," and on the word "astray" from "All we like sheep." Some of the ordered enthusiasm put into the Hallelujah might be applied to "Since by man came death...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Messiah | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

They pursued the simple principle that every object can have an ideal form which, with economy and grace, can express its function. Through centuries of trial & error many of man's simplest tools −the ax helve, the plowshare, the ox yoke −had achieved a utilitarian perfection of design. In essence, industrial design was a brave attempt to bring the same simplicity to all the goods and tools of modern living. The depression, when industrialists were willing to try anything to boost sales, gave the designers their first big chance to show what they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Up from the Egg | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...yoke of all upperclass scholastic problems falls on the shoulders of Dean Wilma A. Kerby-Miller (bottom, left,). Both Deans also sit on the Scholarship and other college committees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Has Separate Administration | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

Broadway's Billy Rose stepped off the plane at Honolulu, cracked from beneath a yoke of traditional leis: "I feel like a well-kept grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Just Deserts | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...death in the igth Century. Bernabé was an outlaw in the Nicaraguan town of Rivas, and he loved cockfighting and roistering even more than Tacho does. He was so handsome, says Tacho, that when he played the guitar, women shivered and swooned. "He could put himself in a yoke and pull like an ox." In a fight over a rooster, says Tacho proudly, Bernabé grabbed a machete and killed 20 men. But a traitor betrayed him. "They hanged Uncle Bernabé," Tacho sighs. "Remembering him, I always try now to avoid provocation. God knows, nobody wishes less bloodshed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: I'm the Champ | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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