Word: three-year
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...teachers sailing last week, 45 were recruits (several just out of uniform), the rest old hands returning with their families for another three-year hitch. Eleven of the party belonged to one family, the Blisses, which have given the American University of Beirut two presidents, a president's wife, three professors...
...other big man of his day was Paul Kane, who may have been the real counterpart of "Langdon Towne," the painter-hero in Kenneth Roberts' Northwest Passage. To paint wilderness Indians as they really were, he accompanied a Hudson's Bay Company "fur brigade" on a three-year trek by snowshoe and canoe, came back with sketches for a lifetime of painting...
Last week, after a three-year lapse, it was back for a 24-day stay at the upstate New York spa, with Whitneys and Vanderbilts in the boxes, touts and bookies in the corner of every hotel lobby, and some of the nation's best horses-Stymie, Gallorette, I Will, First Fiddle, Assault-in the paddocks and on the track...
...Music Center's first season after a three-year war layoff, Koussevitzky & staff have handpicked 410 musicians, the majority under 30, from the U.S., Latin America and Canada. The summer's $100,000 budget is paid off by tuition fees (averaging $120 a student), ticket sales to festival concerts, and gifts. More than 100 students are there under the G.I. Bill of Rights. Aaron Copland, Koussevitzky's assistant director, trains eight young composers. Koussevitzky himself teaches three people how to conduct. At weekend concerts he listens carefully to their conducting efforts. Says he: "I see if they...
...fill it with "the best conversation the world has to offer," and for some years she pretty well succeeded. She lived for months in a tent by the shore of Lake Michigan in order to put out the magazine. In 1918, after moving to Manhattan, she began a three-year struggle to publish Joyce's Ulysses-in which Uncle Alfred, disguised as a Dublin Jew, suffered the most exhaustive and stylistically lavish scrutiny...