Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play, had its U. S. premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Rautendelein was still its inspiration, Heinrich still the heckled human. And for it all Respighi had made lovely, lyric music. But operatic singers, operatic trappings rarely enhance a poetic mood. Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg as Rautendelein managed her bulk skillfully, sang difficult music easily, spent clear high notes' lavishly. But her appearance, her acting left little illusion. Nor could Giovanni Martinelli forget he was a tenor for the sake of the bellcaster. Dramatically it was Baritone Giuseppe de Luca in a minor role who served best. As Nickelmann...
...closing years of the century was the "Flying Wedge" of 1892, the harbinger of a long line of momentum-mass plays ultimately to be legislated illegal. Following this for a number of years, the coaching brains of the country were concentrated in conceiving momentum and mass plays in which bulk and power were to accomplish what skill and artistry were to do in years to come. In 1893 the Crimson cohorts surprised the football world by taking the field in leather breeches. In 1894 all home football activities were transferred from Jarvis to Soldiers Field. This decade also gave...
...bulk of the Student Council meeting last night was consumed in discussion of the new House plan for the sub-division of the College. President Lowell reviewed the history and purpose of the plan and pointed to various difficulties which would have to be never come in its execution. The members of the Council then sought enlightenment on various points which were still obsurce to them...
...Bulk-buying makes possible penny-clipped selling. Provident housewives cherish pennies. Therefore chain grocery stores attract housewives. Two such chains were welded last week...
...Allan, a halfback, has been showing up to advantage in this week's practice sessions and may be in the lineup Saturday afternoon. The tackle to tackle group consisting of Perry, Sprague, Hall, Hammack, and Dibb is intact. These men average 191 pounds and are expected to use their bulk to advantage in halting the Crimson attack Saturday afternoon...