Word: forth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Encyclopedia Britannica of the music world is the late Sir George Grove's five-volume Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Every 20 years or so the learned editors of Sir George's brain child rack their teeming brains and bring forth a new edition. Between these monumental foalings there is spawned a smaller fry of musical dictionaries and encyclopedias, offering fresher if skimpier information at more modest prices. For these, the 1938 birth rate has been the highest in years...
...very-much-alive Soprano Claire Dux), but otherwise bawled informatively along through 2,089 pages. In any ordinary year Editor Wier's weighty off spring might have taken first prize. But this week another lusty 8-lb. volume, The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians,† was brought forth by portly Oscar Thompson. Editor Thompson, who had groaned for two and a half gravid years under the weight of his lexicographic burden, had been helped over the bumps by nearly a hundred of today's leading musical experts, all of whom wrote special articles for it. With check...
Growing Pains. "I was a worker's son," says Odets, "until the age of 12." His father had sold papers, peddled salt; his mother had worked in a factory. During Clifford's childhood the family shuttled back & forth between Philadelphia-where he was born in 1906-and The Bronx, where they settled down. The father slowly rose in the world, ceased to be a worker, today is very well...
When the University reached into the depths of its corporate pocket and brought forth a $3000 loan for the new cooperative dining hall, it not only rescued a praiseworthy venture from the brink of failure but also established an excellent precedent for the handling of future student enterprise...
...table conversation will be followed by more formal discussion in the House common rooms. Austin Welch of the East Boston Social Center will be the guest speaker at Leverett; John Kingman '14 of Lincoln House will speak at Eliot, and Basil Beyea of the Family Welfare Society will held forth at the Gold Coast...