Word: findings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...superstitious, however, would not have a happy lot; they would find little relief from constant anxiety. Imagine the thirteenth day of all thirteen months landing on Friday. Then again, this new calendar may serve as a valuable antidote: if those who now entertain grave apprehensions regarding the number thirteen are still able to enjoy life under the proposed system, the time is at hand when two-dollar bills will no longer be scoffed at, and one match will suffice to light three cigarettes...
...report has the peculiar virtue, each year, of collecting all the stray bits that are the University and fusing them for a moment into a unity for presentation. Side by side with a discussion of the House plan, the reading periods, and other topics of the College, one may find a revelation of progress in the Medical or Dental School; plans for work in a South African astronomical observatory follow those for extension of a system of research professorships in law. An Athletic program and a list of changes in degree requirements in the School of Education find their places...
Here, however, is perhaps one reason why performances of Rosenkavalier are rare in the U. S. It is hard to find among the eccentric ranks of the sopranos any who are capable of filling, but not bursting, the trousers of the count, of being funny and at the same time handsome. There is one such at the Metropolitan, Jeritza; but she, always uncomfortable in trousers, does not like the role. Who, then, last week, was to sing Rosenkavalier, already once postponed, when Soprano Greta Stueckgold, who had been selected for the part last week, fell sick...
Frequently, Herald reporters would be called to Paris and then refused an audience with Bennett or sent home or told to go to the ends of the earth. The greatest news story of the century grew out of Bennett's command in 1869 to Henry Morton Stanley: "Go and find Livingstone...
...snubbed by European Zionists: "I come back a disillusioned and dispirited man after I looked upon the darkest hour of the Jewish nation in many generations. There is no Zionism. It is dead. I thought I was leaving the land in which Zionism was misunderstood and that I would find kindred spirits in Europe...