Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Latest hopeful is Philadelphia-born Margaret Harshaw, 41, who is gradually shouldering a greater load of heavy Wagnerian leads. Big (5 ft. 8 in.) and strong enough to brandish a spear handily and with enough stamina to last out a four-hour opera, Soprano Harshaw seems a natural Wagnerian. She arrived at the Met in 1942 as a contralto, gradually developed her high notes until she became a full-fledged soprano. A fortnight ago, she began belting out impressive "ho-yo-to-hos" in one of Wagner's grandest roles -the helmeted goddess Briinnhilde in Die Walkure-with such...
Over Kiel, Knoke had time to watch the heavy babies in action. "They dump their load right on the Germania shipyards. I am impressed by the precision with which those bastards bomb; it is fantastic." But precision had its price: by the end of 1943, Knoke had shot down 20 Allied planes, and had himself been shot down twice. A fat man in scarlet boots rewarded him with the Gold Cross...
...provision of the Advanced Standing Plan, as proposed for Harvard, would allow concentrators to omit a maximum of two courses from their total academic load to free them for research work or general study...
...supervision, a junior does not possess the background of formal study necessary to make research worthwhile. And because a students is first exposed to individual tutorial in the junior year, no judgment should be made until then of his ability to work under the responsibility of a reduced course load...
...fourth point of the plan provides that the Committee on Special Standing and the individual departments work out a system of course reduction that will allow honors concentrators to omit a maximum of two courses from their total academic load to free them for research work or general study. The reduction would come either entirely in the senior year or one course in both the senior and junior years. Students taking advantage of the reduced course requirements would have the option of taking courses for credit in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...