Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...missionary reached Shanghai last week from the flooded region and reported the creation of a great shallow inland sea, 200 miles long, yellow and endless to the horizon...
...verities, this collection of credos is offered for serious summer reading. Perhaps from this display of fireworks you may catch a guiding flash; you may end up a Confucian worse confounded. Views represented are various. Unanthropomorphic Einstein "cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own-a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism. It is enough for me to contemplate...
...empty theatre. As president and chief guarantor of Ravinia Opera Mr. Eckstein is in his own way a mad king: he has paid for Ravinia some $1,000,000 in the last 20 years and said that as long as he lives there will be opera there. But his creation is no mere plaything: it has become today the world's finest summer opera. From all along the Lake Michigan shore to wooded Ravinia went one night last week the first audience of the ten-week season. Because one may listen for as low as $1.25 (outside the opera...
...Creation of Actress Sybil Thorndike, "foremost British tragic actress," a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire...
...flat, the lowest tone in music that is not just a grunt, is sounded in orchestras by the contrabassoon or the contrabass tuba. Beethoven used the big woodwind in his Ninth Symphony. Haydn in his Creation, Brahms in his First Symphony. Wagner used the mighty mouthed tuba to plumb the murky depths of his Niebelungen Ring...