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...current repertory of the Irish players few plays are as little known as "Autumn Fire," the work of T. C. Murray. The year 1924 saw it first produced in Dublin, 1926 in America. Scant knowledge of the piece did not keep a numerous audience from the Hollis Street Theatre Thursday night, when Boston was given its first sight of the play...
...them. Mr. Hearst sent a congressional junket to Canada to study the 4% Sales Tax there (TIME, Nov. 30). The idea was put before the Ways & Means Committee by his spokesmen when it was drafting the revenue bill with advice from an imported Canadian expert (TIME, March 7). Scant hearings were held. The rank & file of the House membership were not consulted. The Treasury made no recommendation. The committee put the tax into its bill simply because it appeared to be the easiest and handiest method of raising cash...
...trees, but dark scant pasture drawn thin...
Harvard alumni were piqued three weeks ago when the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America met at Cambridge (TIME, Mar. 7). In the excitement of dedicating Massachusetts Institute of Technology's new spectroscopic laboratory, the visitors paid scant attention to the dedication of the last section of Harvard's group of buildings for the study of Physics. Between the Jefferson Physical Laboratory (Professor Theodore Lyman, director) and the Cruft High Tension Electrical Laboratory (Professor George Washington Pierce, director) with its two 100-ft. wireless towers-between them was a space, which now has been enclosed...
Displaying some of the best basketball they have shown all season, the Freshman courtmen lost a nip-and-tuck encounter to a strong Dean Academy quintet by a scant two-point margin. 29 to 27, yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building...