Word: harness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BENGAL MUTINY-George Danger-field-Har-court, Brace ($2). Brief, graphic resume of the Indian Mutiny, guaranteed to make British flesh creep...
...Musicians' Symphony, organized to give 200 capable orchestra men a chance to play again for their living, gave five concerts so successfully last winter that this autumn 20 were announced. The players get $15 a concert or $300 for their winter's work. Conductor Sandor Har-mati. who used to be with the Omaha Symphony, chooses and trains the men. (He claims that many of the players lost their jobs because they had lost their hair. The smoothest pate in the orchestra belongs to Alfred Friese, oldtime tympanist of the New York Philharmonic, whose pupil, young black-mopped Saul Goodman...
Seven months ago William Averell Har- riman. then board chairman of potent Aviation Corp.. was persuaded to invite Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord into the directorate of Avco. Mr. Cord had been a painful nuisance to Avco and other ''pioneer'' operators with his low-fare Century Air Lines, his rambunctious efforts in Washington to get mail contracts. Avco took over Century, gave Mr. Cord 5% of the Corporation's stock. There were expressions of esteem on both sides. But the industry, aware of Mr. Cord as a shrewd, aggressive operator, accustomed to running things...
...some extent Dr. Butler is a prophet greater outside his own country than in it. Certainly he has not acquired the position of national wiseman occupied by Har vard's late great Charles William Eliot. Although often held up as a horrible ex ample of mass-production-educator, he is better appreciated by the superior few who recognize the quality of his own ideas than by the democratic many for whom he spreads out a quantity of learning. But whether he is judged by the institution he created or by the friends he has made, it could be said...
...spite of his name (he pronounces it Jer-HAR-di) he is an Englishman whose ancestors were first Italian, then German. He long spoke English with a Russian intonation, for Russian was his first language. He was born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), because his father ran a cotton mill there. The Gerhardi children were naturally polyglottal; they learned Russian and German from their nurses, French in school, English from their parents. Their Fraulein "used to take the five of us for walks and she dressed us so warmly, tying woolen hoods over our heads, that by the time the fifth...