Word: reference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professional critics have been accustomed to refer to Irving Fine as "a man of promise." His most recent compositions and his varied activities in the University, however, have shown that he is already an all-around musician of highest standing in America. By his music he will be known in the future. An advanced student at Tanglewood last summer commented after hearing one of his works, "I should like to congratulate Mr. Fine for expressing all he has to say through his music...
According to Senator Melley and Representative Toomey, proportional representation is "Un-American" because it "does away with the two party system," and PR "accentuates minorities." They refer to the fact that under PR all citizens vote on all city Council seats, so a simple ward majority cannot elect a candidate, and candidates can run without party label. However, proponents of this method of voting state that it eliminates the evils of the ward system and destroys the power of the "ward boss" over city officials; the councilmen are responsible only to the people And, since the Council in turn appoints...
This isn't quite the way some of her Oklahoma City friends recall it. Pearl, as they unfeelingly refer to her, did not come to Oklahoma until 1906, they say, when she was a full-blown, dark-haired woman of 25. Her father, William B. Skirvin, was a farm-implement salesman, a brash, stubby little cockerel of a man, who left Sturgis, Mich, and headed for the thriving Southwest. Like many another boomer, he set up in real estate in Galveston, Tex., then made a killing around Alta Loma, 18 miles north. Oldtimers are still bitter about that. Wrote...
...were the special interests who were spoiling the show? Harry Truman came no closer to defining his term than to refer four times and scathingly to "the Republicans." But, after all, his own party was in the majority. Obviously not all of the Democratic cast were in sympathy with the Democratic author...
...article I refer to there is absolutely no causal connection between the accident and the color of the student's skin. Whether the student is a Negro or a red Indian is completely irrelevant in this particular situation. The mention of his color is therefore completely unnecessary and unjustified. If Mr. John G. Simon '50 had been the victim of the accident the CRIMSON would not have headlined the story: "Trolley Hits Blond-Haired Student...