Word: freeing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...affairs took on a better aspect. Meanwhile, the Boers who had gone to the Transvaal were oppressing the natives cruelly, and frequent complaints began to be heard. The Boers, however, soon formed an independent government and refused all allegiance to any outside power. A claim on the Orange Free State, made in 1857 by the Boers, was followed by years of internal strife and native revolts. In 1877 the government was deeply in debt and wholly without resources, and in this condition the country was annexed by Great Britain...
...franchise question caused much trouble, as twelve years were required for any rights of citizenship by foreigners. The free sale of spirits to the natives destroyed their efficiency in the mines; and on all sides the political corruption became so unbearable that the Uitlanders finally determined to revolt...
...Orestes, Carl Wagner played a very difficult part with great force, and yet with perfect naturalness. Especially in the highly emotional scenes of the third act, where the slightest over acting would have been fatal, he was free from any ranting, and never lost sight of the artistic limitations of the part. By his excellent acting he relieved the artificiality of the swoon scene, which is perhaps the greatest blemish in the play...
...subject ever composed throughout by a native-born American. For Professor Paine has written his own libretto as well as the music, and both words and music show genius of the highest order; the words in their dramatic power and poetic beauty, and the music in that it is free and original in spirit while preserving symmetrical form and proportion. The scene is laid in Provence about the time of the early Crusades. The opera is romantic in spirit, with a thrilling plot of many tragic situations and a happy denouement. The action centres around the invasion of Provence...
...clock. This concert will be open only to members of the University and to their friends. A block of seats have been reserved for the friends of the men on the clubs and admission to this section will be by ticket only; the rest of the seats will be free and unreserved. Most of the music of all three organizations has never been played or sung by them in Cambridge before, and an entirely new feature will be the songs by the Glee Club accompanied by the Mandolin Club. All previous efforts to combine the clubs have been unsuccessful...