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...Schubert, also plays Debussy and Ravel occasionally ("They're too beautiful to play very often"). Unlike most Soviet artists, he has a wide command of contemporary Western music, e.g., Bartok, Hindemith. All told, he has a repertory of between 25 and 30 complete recital programs, plus a slew of concertos...
...Asia Minor, hired 12,900 of them to help overthrow his brother. King Artaxerxes. They clashed with the Persian forces at Cunaxa, near ancient Babylon. After Cyros was killed by a javelin, his native troops fled the field, leaving the Greeks surrounded. To make matters worse, the Persians slew the Greek commanders by treachery...
Although the varsity track team outsloshed host Cornell, 42 to 41 in the running events, the Big Red inundated the varsity with a slew of points in the field events to win, 741/2 to 561/2 in the contest at Ithaca Saturday. Penn trailed with 42 points...
...Thirteen years after the Dervishes of the Mahdi killed Britain's famed fanatical General Charles Rogers ("Chinese") Gordon at the end of a ten-month siege in 1885, Lord Kitchener returned for revenge and to forestall French expansion in the area, slew 10,563 Dervishes in a brief pitched battle at Omdurman. Among Kitchener's cavalry subalterns in the battle: Winston Spencer Churchill, then...
...however, a student who received his tutor's permission were allowed to sign off board, neither difficulty would arise. No slew of rate adjustments would bom-bard the bursar's office, for the privilege would be restricted to those on scholastic missions. But the College and its officers should be aware that by remitting the board charges they may encourage needy students to do valuable research on theses, work which might otherwise be neglected...