Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes of Fascismo," boomed Signor Rocco with an eagle-like fixation of his own terrifying optics, "In the eyes of Fascismo an attorney, even though retained under fee by a client, still owes his first duty to the State! He must hasten Justice and make it sure, even against the wishes or the interests of his client. He must control the exposition of facts related to him by the client and gather the elements of proof into an honored sequence, so that when the trial begins it can move speedily to a decision. There must be no emotional pleading...
...when he came on stage carrying a full-sized violin. The chubby legs were longer. The accustomed white suit had been changed for a solemn black one. But when he played Beethoven's D Major Sonata he showed increased technical skill, broader and warmer tone, more mature style. Even more amazing was the manner in which he accomplished a hazardous Bach sonata unaccompanied. His audience cheered loudly and many who had transferred his title of "greatest wunderkind" to the startling and even younger violinist Ruggiero Ricci (TIME, Dec. 9) at once restored it to Yehudi. Prophets foresaw a Menuhin...
Frosty Peters of Illinois, Brazil of Detroit, Glasgow of Iowa, Nagurski of Minnesota-they were the East backfield. Clark of Colorado State, Benny Lom of California, Pomeroy of Utah, Gillmore of Oregon State were the West. Peters out-punted Lom, as many said he would, and even the big Texans and Californians in the Western line could not stop Nagurski's bucks. East 19, West...
...original 200 and 23 studios available for four months of the year at the rate of $12 per week. To be true to its purpose, the colony must be kept small, never is to exceed 25. There creators in any branch of the arts may work in perfect seclusion, even have meals brought to their studio doors. There are dormitories for men, equipment for physical recreation, an excellent library. Worthiest advertisement is a list of Peterborough patrons and their products. It includes Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson whose Tristram was Peterborough-born, Novelist Thornton Niven Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis...
Normally Mr. Girdler is an even-tempered gentleman. But what he considers injustice "raises his dander." Forthwith he last week fired a fusillade of protesting telegrams. Most significant were the brace which went to Kentucky's Senator Alben William Barkley and Representative Maurice Hudson Thatcher urging them instantly to remind President Hoover and Secretary Lamont of the Hoover opposition against Government competition with private business, to appeal for continued Government purchase and support of private helium...