Word: personnel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a third fiasco occurred. A newly organized Boston Grand Opera Company (in whose personnel were Russian Soprano Anna Lissetzkaya, Baritone Pasquale Amato, Soprano Dorothy Speare) was scheduled to open its second week. Singers backstage applied their makeup, practiced their trills. A thousand patrons arrived. But the Opera House doors remained closed. The performance was canceled, money refunded. Reason: a $15,000 deficit...
...Willoughby brings out in an anthoritative manner the circumstances under which many of the lighthouses were first suggested, engineering difficulties which in several cases threatened failure, disasters to lighthouse property and personnel, heroic deeds of keepers in times of peril to their lives, and many local legends. Among the most interesting aspects of this volume are the many stories of human interest which are scattered throughout the pages and their interplay with the histories of the lighthouses themselves. While thus making the work invaluable for reference purposes Mr. Willoughby has been able to avoid loading down his pages with dull...
...course there are numerous advantages to this arrangement, such as its excellence as a training possibility for prospective athletes (and jailbirds), the fact that it tends to keep the personnel of Randolph and Apthorp off the streets, and the all-important one from a Watch and Ward point of view, that it keeps the personnel of the streets out of Randolph and Apthorp...
...which has been in progress for the past week, was completed yesterday in a tie between Gore and Smith, each with three points, followed by Standish with two and McKinlock with none. Several promising men are among the winners who will be counted on heavily to make up the personnel of the Freshman team...
...itself by passing this resolution: "In the opinion of this House the government should use its utmost efforts to stimulate international action for the study and eventual preparation of a treaty for the comprehensive reduction and limitation of naval, military and air armaments, including war material as well as personnel...