Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR FINE ARTICLE AND THE SPLENDID COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE STORY ON THE FOREST SERVICE [JULY...
...came fresh capital and nien with big ideas. Pink-cheeked Millionaire Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser jolted the Big Five by plunking down $18 million for an apartment-hotel resort called "Hawaiian Village," starting a $350 million "dream city" in Oahu's Kokohead area. Sheraton Hotels took over four splendid Waikiki Beach hotels, including the Royal Hawaiian and Moana, and made them pay. The venerable Bank of Hawaii brought in a new president from California, Rudy Peterson, and Peterson in turn brought with him such surefire mainland business-getters as charge accounts for credit loans and a factoring system...
Turning to Group 20, you say it "in the opinion of most is the best young theater group in America." Whether it is or not superior to, say, the five-year-old American Shakespeare Festival is a moot question; but we all recognize it to be a splendid company...
...opening work was the quaint Duet in D Major by Haydn. There followed the Duo for Violin and Violoncello by the contemporary composer Bohuslav Martinu, a work that is full of technical difficulties and cadenza-like passages for the two instruments. The final work was Ravel's splendid Sonata for Violin and Violoncello, which elicted the most enthusiastic response from the audience...
...thousands who visit Montserrat, only a handful of men (women are forbidden) is allowed to penetrate the monastery cloister, where a splendid art collection has been formed in the Virgin's honor. Among the hidden masterpieces on the cloister walls, Caravaggio's St. Jerome is perhaps the most compelling...