Word: chases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snakes' Chase. Even so, the critics could find nothing but good in Rudi Bing's reputation. He had learned the opera business from the ground up -in Vienna, in Berlin, and since 1934 in England. He was well aware that "the artistic and commercial ends of opera management chase each other like a snake biting its own tail." He was hopeful about the unions. During the war, when Glyndebourne shut up shop, he had worked his way from clerk to the front office of a London department store. "I got on all right with the shop assistants; perhaps...
Cincinnati, Ohio, W. Rowell Chase '26 of Proctor and Gamble, and Walter B. Transportation Department, Standard Oil; Dallas, Texas, William S. Montgomery P. O. B. Montgomery, Builders Engineers; and Denver, Colorado, Thomas M. Dines, President of U.S. National Bank...
Balloting was held from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. yesterday at Holden Chapel, chase Hall, Vanderbilt Hall and the Arboretum at Dedham in order that the 1000 members of the Association could cast their votes...
From Carson City to Kabul, the audience sighed pleasurably and started feeling for its shoes. The chase was over. In sunny France last week, the son of the Prophet finally did right by little Rita...
Most of the contemporary masters have one point in common: their stories are laid in the future. Interplanetary flights are routine, as are the "space operas" in which heroes chase villains through dazzling stretches of the galaxy. One of the oldest forms of science fiction is the "Utopia story," in which a coherent history of an ideal world is sketched out. A popular form is the "prophecy story," in which the consequences of man's inventive ingenuity in, say, rocket ships, are thought out. Subject matter ranges from the zoology of other planets to apocalyptic portraits of the world...