Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Michelson's presence at Washington last week was a joy to him. The Optical Society of America was meeting there, in the auditorium of the Bureau of Standards. Several hundred physicists who have been searching out light's properties and effects hailed him as one of their greatest. He had measured light data upon which Albert Einstein was able to base his relativity theory...
Just nine years later, the U. S. granted the Carson patents. But the Desert Rat, discouraged, had little hope of selling them to the big companies. One night in 1915, he sat in a Manhattan auditorium, listening to the papers read to the American Society of Mining Engineers. One speaker started to explain a new copper reduction process, already in operation in the West. The Desert Rat rose in his seat eyes blazing. He was listening to a description of his own furnace...
Sedalia. What makes Sedalia, Mo., a famed political spot is a 230-acre enclosure, the State Fair Grounds, with an auditorium that will hold some 10,000 persons. With this edifice packed, a crowd of 35,000 milled outside. They had eaten the town out of food supplies. They were so thick that pickpockets were able to filch $500 from Norman H. Davis ($150 of which he was guarding for Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson), and $125 each from two Manhattan newspapermen...
...usually are preached from his pulpit in the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan. He preaches to packed houses; it therefore is not easy to attend his church, but to gain admittance to the church proper the following instructions have been issued: attend the service in the men's auditorium, hear Dr. Fosdick's voice through an amplifier; sign a blank and receive a ticket for admission to the church proper on the following Sunday...
...doses, in early autumn, the San Francisco Opera Association first, then the Los Angeles Opera Association. The producing companies and the repertoires are essentially the same with Gaetano Merola director of both, and many of the same singers. Some 5,000 heard Aida in San Francisco's Dreamland Auditorium. Then came La Cena delle Beffe, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Turandot, L'Amore del Tre Re, Fedora, Andrea Chenier, Faust, Carmen, Cavalleri Rusticana and Pagliacci. Los Angeles has the same list without Aida and Fedora. There were many members of the Metropolitan Opera in the casts, such famed ones...