Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus went Nordica's life-from a heyday that was richly spectacular to an ending deeply pathetic. She was born plain Lillian Norton in Farmington, Me. She sang in church choirs in Boston, toured with a brass band until she could afford to study opera in Italy. Like Lilli Lehmann, she began with light florid roles, won great success. But her ambition soared higher. She went to Bayreuth, worked with Wagner's widow, became a finished Wagnerian. As a prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera she conducted herself royally. For her audiences she had unfailing charm; for herself...
...News and Times-Herald "come into our field every day in the year with their damn Wirephotos-using our pictures!" Defense by President Noyes: "If we are to back to real mutuality, we go back to a pony wire service for all members, because some members can't afford anything better. ' Vote: Overwhelming...
...first of these funds will provide for the award of an annual cash prize to that student who, in the opinion of the Spanish Department, has attained the highest distinction in Spanish literature. The second will afford substantial financial aid to men of restricted means who are majoring in Spanish. The club hopes to be able, in future years, to establish a scholarship for study at the University of Madrid...
...crookery a few years ago. But Mayor Kelly also showed himself a magnificent vote-getter in an election marked by no noteworthy issue. And a political organization able to deliver 800,000 Democratic votes is not one that a President who wants to be re-elected in 1936 can afford to ignore...
...policy of choosing students from states not yet widely represented at Harvard is as important as the financial provisions of the program. Although the East has always furnished by far the largest number of Harvard's undergraduates, the University can not afford to shut its eyes to that larger and increasingly important part of the country. President Conant's scholarship plan promises to overcome the practical difficulties in the way of the Western student mentally, though not financially, equipped to study at Harvard...