Word: according
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terms of her own contract, awakened by a kiss. The steps to the throne again - the Emperor and all his people gathered once more to see Turandot lead in Calaf, Prince of the Tartars, and announce his name as Love. Opinions for the most part were in perfect accord. The production itself was lavish beyond compare, Maria Jeritza was wonderfully effective as Turandot, so glinty cold as to send the shivers down 4,000 spines as she shrilled her desire to avenge all men. Giacomo Lauri-Volpi was a loud, adequately heroic Calaf. But there were none of those sweet...
...could not afford to be promoted to the post of Counselor of the Legation at Peking. His salary- was to be $8,000 a year. Neither is Mr. Dulles extravagant. He can easily live on his salary, but with his rise in rank and diplomatic importance he must entertain accord- ingly and put on the swank that is expected of a legate of the U. S. Said he in a letter to Secretary of State Kellogg: "The financial burden involved in the acceptance of the higher positions in the diplomatic service is such that outside resources are increasingly necessary. Under...
...accord is looked upon as a distinct move in binding the "Big Three" together mere closely and comes at a time when conditions between Harvard and Princeton were said to be near the breaking point...
...number of eligible princes. The result of this tragic state of affairs has been to over-value royal males. A difficulty indeed arises when it is noticed that the royal heiresses although greatly under-valued, refuse to be driven out of their respective countries and out of circulation in accord with Gresham's Law. Possibly the reason is that if driven out of one country, they would yet be in another and still available. Or the recent wholesale discounting of all royal values may have upset the working of economic theory, a not unusual occurrence--in practice...
...edifice, designed by the firm of Adden and Parker, will be architecturally in harmony with the structures recently built by the University. A three-story brick building, it will be devoted on the street floor to shops, having windows with small panes, in accord with the demands of Colonial architecture. The school itself will occupy the 20 classrooms on the two upper floors...