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Word: apr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work-fastidious, poetic, voluptuous and all but perfection in technique-had an immense influence on the composers of the early nineteen hundreds. Besides a picture of an incurable Bohemian, Biographer Thompson offers a systematic critical study of all of his compositions, from the slightest piano piece to L'Après-midi d'un Faune and Pelleas et Melisande...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Impressionist | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...HAVEN, Apr. 21 (Special to CRIMSON): Agitation for the promotion of basketball to a major sport, which was begun at Yale before it was recommended at Harvard, received its final and official benediction from the Board of Athletic Control last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Puts Final O.K. on Major Sport Rating for Basketball | 4/22/1937 | See Source »

...flowers thrown from balconies. At the waterside President Roosevelt stopped to shake hands with the Argentine chauffeur, who beamed from ear to ear at the unexpected honor. The crowd cheered filial devotion as Lieut. Colonel James Roosevelt buttoned a yellow slicker up around his father's neck. "Aprés vous," said the bilingual President of the U. S. to the President of Argentina, and followed him up the gangplank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Apotheosis | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Metropolitan Opera House last week, to begin a tour which will take it to every one of the United States, was the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe. For the first time in the U. S. the Monte Carlo dancers presented the great shocker of the great Diaghilev era: L'Après-midi d'un faune, designed and danced by Vaslav Nijinsky not long before he became so addlebrained that he was interned in a Swiss sanatorium. Last week handsome David Lichine impersonated the spotted faun, gyrating insidiously, blatantly suggesting, as did his predecessor, the throes of sexual desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shocking Faun | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...complete schedule is as follows: Feb. 12, Texas A. & M., V. M. I., U. of Missouri; Feb. 26, Ohio State, Princeton; Mar. 11, Colorado Aggies, U. of Wisconsin, Iowa State, U. of Florida, U. of Utah; Apr. 15, Cornell, Purdue, Oklahoma, Illinois; Apr. 22, R.O.T.C. matches, Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 15 Postal Matches Arranged By This Year's Pistol Club | 2/11/1936 | See Source »

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