Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arms it appears certain that Martini has established himself as the screen's No. 1 tenor just as certainly as Grace Moore is its soprano and Lawrence Tibbett its baritone. What producers will do in the future for material to satisfy the public's new hunger for classic singing remains vague but pictures like Here's To Romance make it seem likely that before long the cinema, if only by exhausting the supply of arias, will create its own grand opera...
...does in the U. S. Lamarckism began to fade from the evolutionary picture after 1900, when Johann Gregor Mendel's work on the heredity of garden peas was rediscovered and the theatre of heredity was found to be in the genes and chromosomes of the germ cells. The classic experiment in disproof of Lamarckism is to snip off the tails of generation after generation of newborn mice. If this acquired lack of tail could be inherited, the mice should be born with smaller & smaller tails; but the baby mice persist indefinitely in appearing with fine long tails...
What a maze of trenches and ice plains "our classic enclosure" once enclosed is apparent from the following editorial which appeared on January 24, 1873 in the first issue of the Magenta...
...wish the College would lay plank walks in the Yard. As we wade through our classic enclosure on the sloppy days of the January thaw, or, when the signal man at Washington turns the water into ice, as we gracefully measure our length in front of the University, we think of this...
...courage, savage skill and crude weapons against the scientifically equipped Italian Jackal," cabled the Herald Tribune's Linton Wells from the Champion's corner in Addis Ababa, taking sides at once as a good fight reporter must. "What impresses one particularly is the amazing morale of these classic-featured, bushy-haired black men. . . . So eager to fight are the Ethiopian lions that the Emperor is able only with difficulty to restrain them from attacking the Italians and precipitating the conflict...