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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major Sonata, Schumann's Arabesque, Brahms' Variations on a theme by Paganini, smaller quantities of Chopin, Debussy, Albeniz-such was the varied course which Iturbi chose to run. Because he had played Mozart with the Philharmonic, his audience was not surprised to hear him endow the Sonata with a cool, fresh beauty seldom equalled. The Brahms technical difficulties were topped at a speed which was never bewildering. Debussy, despite its mistiness, had structure, clarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Iturbi | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...stands almost unique, as a department of the University that is capable of supporting itself. The H. A. A. is apparently not only capable of supporting itself but also in a position to endow itself, and of all endowments the gymnasium stands out most prominently as a material facility sought by Harvard men ever since Hemenway proved itself insufficient two or more decades ago. It remains for the Corporation to decide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SO HE TOOK THE FIFTY THOUSAND | 10/1/1929 | See Source »

...Another famed Negro to play the Moor was Ira Aldridge in the early half of the 19th Century. To endow an Aldridge memorial chair in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, U. S. Negroes recentlv subscribed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Endow as he will, the present Mr. Mackay will never be able to give back to Nevada the color of its oldtime mining days, when his high-spirited mother, Marie Louise Hungerford (Bryant), widow of a shacktown doctor, ran a shacktown boarding house, married her Irish boarder and zoomed with him to riches indescribable. Today a Nevada "miner," before he makes his mark, is a smooth-faced youth in flannel or corduroy trousers (lately bell-bottomed) and a woolen sweater, with a stack of books in his dormitory room, instead of pick, pan and shovel. Instead of rip-roaring oldtime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Silver Tradition | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Carnegie Institution. Ranking next to the $550,000,000 which the John Davison Rockefellers have given to social agencies is the $350,000,000 which Andrew Carnegie (1837-1919) gave. The sum constituted nine-tenths of his fortune. To endow the Carnegie Institution of Washington he assigned $10,000,000 in 1902. After a special act of Congress incorporated the Institution in 1904, it received $12,000,000 more from Mr. Carnegie directly and $5,000,000 from Carnegie Corp. of New York, which he established in 1911 to maintain his funds for "aiding technical schools, institutions of higher learning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Genetics | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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