Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...coal, needlessly burned, would now be available for use if the turn-the-clock-ahead bill, of which Senator Calder is sponsor, had been passed in time to have been in operation during the spring and summer months of 1917. The estimate is that of the United States Chamber of Commerce, based on Daylight saving being in effect "only for the shortest period that has been suggested and at a time when there is least need for artificial heat and light...
...largest room is no more suited to drill purposes than Sever 12. That Lord Howe wished to sail up the Bronx river to conquer New York State seems ridiculous to us, but it is no more so than the notion that a company can learn tactics in a chamber the size of an average lecture hall. To cross the Alps was a great feat in Hannibal's time; it was a simple move compared to giving about face in the Municipal Building. Something must be done for a joke is good only once, but this state of affairs cannot last...
...second concert in Mr. Arthur Whiting's series of expositions of chamber music for the year will be given this evening at 8.15 o'clock, in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. It will be open only to officers and students of the University and to members of the Naval Radio School and the Naval Cadet School, and there will be no charge for admission. Mr. Whiting, at the harpsichord, will be assisted by Mr. George Barrere, Flute, and Miss Loraine Wyman, soprano. The program will consist of 17th century music for the harpsichord; Bach sonata...
...second concert in Mr. Arthur Whiting's series of expositions of Chamber music will be given next Thursday evening at 8.15 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. It will be open only to officers and students of the University and to members of the Naval Radio School and the Naval cadet School. There will be no charge for admission. Mr. Whiting at the harpsichord will be assisted by Mr. George Barrere, flute, and Miss Loraine Wyman, soprano. The program will consist of 17th century music for the harpsichord; Bach sonata in B minor...
...scandal which in more normal times would be creating a world-wide sensation. M. Malvy, for several years Minister of the Interior, whose activities had been shown up in a very bad light at the time of the Bolo Pasha scandal, and who had been subsequently accused in the Chamber of being in league with Germany, requested recently a trial before the Senate for high treason. But the Special Committee of Thirty-Three, charged with the investigation of the accused, has rejected this proposal and suggested to the Chamber that he be impeached. That such a widespread scandal could exist...