Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still of shorter duration than that of most capital cities. This year its ten-week season will be distinguished by the performance of two complete Ring cycles, by the addition to the repertoire of Montemezzi's L'Amore del Tre Re and Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus. Among new singers will be Tenor Beniamino Gigli of the Metropolitan Opera, Soprano Edith Mason of the Chicago Civic Opera. Soprano Rosa Ponselle, sensation of last year, will return...
...journey" Author Cherry-Garrard tells about was not Scott's fatal march, but a trip taken by himself and two others in search of eggs of the Emperor Penguin. It required five weeks of fearful hardship; when their tent blew away in a gale they thought they would die, almost gave up hope. But they got three eggs, brought them back safe and sound. Blurbs Playwright George Bernard Shaw: ". . . a very horrible experience. Compared with it Amundsen's victorious rush to the South Pole seems as cheerful as a trip to Margate...
...first, then the ponies; Scott went on with four men, on foot; he reached the Pole on Jan. 18. It was a long trip back (1,766 miles), weather conditions were much worse than anticipated, rations insufficient. First Seaman Evans, strongest man of the party, dropped in his tracks, died. Then Lieutenant Oates began to weaken. One night, after they had made camp, Oates went out of the tent, declared he might be gone some time, never came back. But his sacrifice was vain; 177 miles from safety, Scott and two last survivors pitched their last camp, wrote farewell letters...
...abolition of credit based on the September examinations is a step towards alleviating this state of affairs. But in many cases this step will merely result in forcing the do-or-die applicant to spend another eight months in tutoring school in preparation for the next series of quizzes. The only way, then, for Harvard to protect herself from students completely dependent on the Widow is to refuse admission to students trained by Widow methods, that is students from schools who make a specialty of passing College Boards...
...Government is that which re-established America's respect for Peru. No assassin's bullet can destroy my work. It is eternal. Should I die, the assassin's own hand will inscribe my name in history...