Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Cambridge Trust Company has kindly agreed to receive contributions toward a fund to be known as the Harvard University Chelsea Relief Fund, and to forward the money subscribed to Lee, Higginson & Co., treasurers of the general fund. The fearful destitution of the thousands of homeless people demands an instant response, and Harvard should not be behind in the philanthropic patriotism of Greater Boston. Officers and students of the University are urged to contribute in any amounts, large or small, according to their means. Call at the Cambridge Trust Company today, or leave the subscriptions in a box placed...
...sorts when a team or an individual does more than it was believed possible; and, although this may be said to have been due to any number of causes, the real one was that the individual or the members of the team had, for perhaps but an instant, had one ear open to the grandstand and had received the outside encouragement...
Last night's Symphony concert was of particular interest because the ballet music of Professor Paine's opera "Azara" was given its first hearing in orchestral form at these concerts. The music has tone-coloring of exceptional beauty, and a spirit and freedom of touch that wins for it instant admiration. Mr. Gericke and the orchestra did full justice to the work, and it may be said to have been given under most favorable circumstances. The soloist was Miss Maud McCarthy, who played admirably a difficult Brahms concerto. Miss McCarthy has a power of expression and a clearness of execution...
...excuse for their failure. The Maharajah is furious, but his anger is quickly changed to the utmost terror, when word comes that the Rao and his soldiers are approaching, in search of the Cat. Before he can escape the brutal Rao appears, demands the Magical cat or the instant death of the Maharajah, and is on the point of carrying his threat into execution, when the two fakirs appear with the wonderful Cat between them. The fakirs bring the guards to life, receive a large reward for their services; the Rao is so delighted to receive his wonderful animal again...
...many Americans who have made their reputation in England are also included in the roll, the dictionary has thus the come in one sense a record of exchange of service. A national biography is the most efficient method, the lecturer state, in conclusion, of responding to the commemorative instant of the nation. In as much as it offers a rational permanent and perspicuous memorial of national achievement...