Word: fritz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fritz Reiner (Cincinnati Symphony...
...modernizing of Shakespeare is just a fad," Fritz Leiber, veteran Shakespearian star, walking off the stage into his dressing-room at the Arlington Theatre, explained to a CRIMSON representative. "It appeals to those people who are always seeking novelty in a thing, while the company likes it because it breaks up the repertoire...
...received the Institute's Edison Medal for his "contributions to the incandescent electric lighting and x-ray arts" by his development of ductile tungsten for bulb filaments and x-ray targets. At the same ceremony John Joseph Carty of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. had received the John Fritz Medal for his "development of research in the telephone...
...been pitched on the landing. Our guides, accustomed to the long grind, were so industrious that at four that afternoon the white tent of Camp No. 3, which was to be our highest camp, had been pitched on the landing nearest the summit. From this camp Fritz and Murgatroyd were to make the final dash. By seven o'clock the tent was full of meteorological instruments and empty bottles. At nine o'clock Fritz bought back his watch for ten blue chips, looked at it and at Murgatroyd, snapped it shut, rose and spoke: "It's come, boys...
...Fritz, dear old Fritz McCarthy, to whom I would soon say goodbye forever, had one of his thoughts. "Wait a year," he said with the roguish twinkle that gained him the reputation of "funster" around camp. He strapped on his climbing shoes with the heavy iron spikes, and disappeared across the plateau and into the Reading Room. A minute later he came in sight. He had two natives under each arm, whose whole lives, as he told us, had been spent in the vicinity of the peak. Had they ever been to the top? Answering with fluent hands in sign...