Word: donning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Of course, the special nature of brass technique requires a special type of writing by composers. Skillful handling, as in the bombastic theme near the end of Strauss's Don Juan and in the rich romantic treatment of Brahm's Fourth Symphony (which will be played this week) exploits the...
Ohio State, with a 215-lb. quarter back named Don Scott and two Brobdingnagian tackles - 225-lb. Jim Daniell and 260-lb. Jim Piccinnini - looked like the No. 1 threat. Considered only fair-to-middling at the start of the season, the Buckeyes sprang the surprise of the Big Ten...
The 1939 prize was ticketed for Professor Gerhard Domagk of Germany, who first showed the efficacy of prontosil (forerunner of the miracle-drug sulfanilamide) in treating streptococcal infections. The Nobel committee thus serenely ignored Adolf Hitler's ban on Nobel Prizes for Germans, wrathfully decreed by the Fü...
"We are in a position to be War Baby No. 1, as in the last war, but I can tell you that our directors and our associates don't want that kind of business. I'd like to see the war stop today. Bethlehem would be better off...
This book is a sequel to The Sword in the Stone, shows faintbrained, sweet-natured King Arthur confronted with the first problems of his position: how, with horn-rimmed Merlyn's help, to defeat rebellious kings; how to enlist Might in the cause of Right. Half-fantasy, half-burlesque...