Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlike the old House, modeled on the European style where first consideration was good seats for the King and his retinue, the new structure plans to cut down the number of boxes from 54 to 35, to increase total seating capacity from 3,600 to 5,372. In oldfashioned opera houses seeing the stage was of minor importance. Since Richard Wagner introduced epic and dramatic beauties, the importance of the stage has increased. Mr. Urban's plans not only provide superior sight lines for the audience; they also include a stage mechanism of elevators, steel screens, side rostrums...
Joseph was a lazy boy who could do nothing better than cut down trees neatly. But, what Uncle Henry, who raised the biggest lettuce heads ever seen in those parts, could never understand, was why Joseph refused to cut down the ash trees. Metabel came to know the reason when she met one day a little green god sitting in the woods and talking to some mice. He preferred ash trees to live under and Joseph knew it. Joseph would never have cut down an ash if St. John Deakan had not come to dinner one night and brought...
...believe) the only undergraduate in Harvard University who knows who cut down your tree. The reason for my previous anonymity must be clear to you, for at the disclosure of my name, the guilty parties would be hot upon my trail...
...bond with Equity of sufficient size to pay each member of the cast a week's salary and his fare to Broadway. Many of the profession's finest artists are unwilling to submit themselves to the construction of Equity membership, but even they do not deny that it has cut the endings from what would have been the tragedies...
...original plan was to cut the squad to ten men in the trials last night. Due, however, to the unusually large turn-out for the debating team last Monday, it was found impossible to cut the squad to a small number at once. There will be at least two more sets of preliminary speeches delivered by the candidates before the final six debaters are chosen...