Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition, he passed several college courses. A scholarship might have reduced his initiative and caused him to give up cards. As it was, he followed his twin careers into later life, and for a time he was a tenor at the Metropolitan Opera House...
Harvard's great tenure battle is entering a new and more active stage. Yesterday morning the matter was first reported by metropolitan daily newspapers (hitherto Time has been the only publication to touch it), and it is certain that the coming salvos of publicity will force the Administration to play a different sort of game. Moreover, there has been intensified action on a number of University fronts; although none of the recently issued statements alters one whit the positions which have been previously taken...
...Manhattan's vast Metropolitan Museum for an indefinite visit will go the five classical Greek statues, one ascribed to Praxiteles, which have been a star turn at the World of Tomorrow. Too precious to run the risk of torpedoes is the first group of originals that has left Greece since Lord Elgin carried off the treasures of the Acropolis to London's British Museum more than a century ago. Premiums on the five statues' insured value of $2,000,000 presumably will be paid by the Metropolitan...
...Dartmouth's in town again" to continue an age-old rivalry and with every intention of tearing apart not only eleven Crimson stalwarts, but the goal-posts and all of Metropolitan Boston, as has been their custom in recent years...
First to snap up the bargain rates for Fair-owned buildings was big Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. General Electric, Ford, General Motors, Firestone, Carrier Corp. also signed up. By week's end Florida was the only State to renew her contract; Ohio the only one (of 33) to say she wouldn...