Word: fritz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Fritz Medal. The John Fritz Gold Medal, one of the highest engineering honors in America, has been awarded for 1924 to Ambrose Swasey, of Cleveland. Mr. Swasey, born in New Hampshire in 1846, is now Vice Chairman of the Warner & Swasey Co., pioneer manufacturers of astronomical and optical apparatus, fine machine tools, precision instruments, military and naval rangefinders. Under his direction were built the 36-inch refractor at Lick Observatory, the 40-inch refractor at Yerkes Observatory (largest in the world), and the 72-inch reflecting telescope at the Dominion Observatory, Victoria, B. C. But his chief claim...
Sunday afternoon in the Opera House a recital by Fritz Kreisler surpassed by no living violinist...
...more Phi Beta Kappa keys present than in Congress. Many study law on the side. Others are preparing themselves for active politics. So far women have been exclu'ded. Such men as Senator William J. Harris of Georgia, Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, Representatives Charles R. Crisp of Georgia, Fritz G. Lanham of Texas, Addison T. Smith of Idaho, Wallace H. White of Maine, have risen from their ranks. The "Little Congress" is not so little...
...Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra the other evening gave a program of all Shakespeare, that is to say of orchestral pieces written to illustrate some Shakesperian theme. This interesting selection of music, ably conducted by Fritz Reiner, consisted of Korngold's Much Ado About Nothing, Wechsler's overture As You Like It, Berlioz' Queen Mab, Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. This piquantly balanced the well known against the little known...
...complete copy of Mr. Saslawsky's program follows: Ah. Mio Cor Handel Come and Trip it Handel The Plague of Love Dr. Arne So Sweete is Shee, Old English, arr. by William Fisher The Praise of Islay, Old Scotch, arr. by Fritz Kreisler Der Wanderer Schubert Seven Ditchterliebe Schumann Die Mainachi Brahms La Caravan Chausson Claire de Lune Faure Villanelle dos petits canards Chabrier Wiegenlied Moussorgsky Hopak Moussorgsky Poem of Musse Rachmaninoff The Steppe Gretchaninoff...