Word: berg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth night amid the drifting clutter of ice, the explorers were passing along an iceberg when another berg charged, passed, missing them by yards. The charging berg "ran up against the first berg with a heavy thud that would have squeezed us to powder. . . . We saw in the far distance the reflection of the moon on an iceberg to leeward...
...Princeton 21, Yale 38; and Harvard 23, Yale 35, Time-15.18. Winner-R. S. Playfair '36, Hull (P), Dellingr (Y), Hogan (P), J. R. O'Neill '36. Owen (P), Allen (Y), L. H. Orr '36, Earhart (P), Yard (P), D. Gratwick '36, Blackmer (Y), E. W. Dalton '36, Berg (Y), L. C. Leen '36, Hughes (P), Donaldson (P), Keily (P), T. L. Day '36, R. M. Peet '36, Edwards (P), Washburn (Y), A. M. Josephy '36, E. T. Farley '36, Young (Y), Karsten (Y), Mellinger (P), Hansberg (Y), Quinn...
Something grim by Alban Berg, a new complexity by Stravinsky, something noisy out of the U. S. S. R.-any new composition out of the ordinary has titillated Philadelphians and Manhattanites when Leopold Stokowski shook his frizzy blond locks over it for the first time. Audiences did not always actually like the new music; but there was the exciting possibility of a new Stokowski gesture, a Stokowski gadget, a lot of Stokowskitalk. A typical performance was when, at a broadcast concert, he conducted in a glass booth, controlling the sound to his own satisfaction. It has since been learned that...
...five principal German parties emerged last week with the following seats as compared with the last Reichstag election (September 1930): 1932 1930 National Socialists (Hitler) 230 107 Socialists 133 143 Communists (Ernst Thalmann) 89 77 1932 1930 Centrists & Bavarian People's Party (Bruningj 96 87 Nationalists (Alfred Hugen-berg...
Hardly less gory and sincere were Sammy Fuller and Jack ("Kid") Berg in New York, the former outpointing the latter in twelve rounds. Fuller's victory was supposed to entitle him to meet the champion, Tony Canzoneri, between whom and Petrolle there is little to choose...