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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second newcomer was Italian-born Soprano Hilde Reggiani, hit of last year's Chicago opera season. Small, plump, 25, she cooed a coy Gilda to Lawrence Tibbett's towering Rigoletto, hit super-high Ds and Es with expert marksmanship, held onto them with the tenacity of garlic. When husky Baritone Tibbett vowed to avenge her worse-than-fatal fate, and threw her, pleading, to the ground, well-rounded Soprano Reggiani rolled like a well-aimed bowling ball, ended on her back, half way across the Metropolitan stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Singers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Schmidt camera is unique among astronomy telescope in giving sharp focus over a large area of the sky. Light enters the telescope through a correcting lens, travels onto a spherical concave mirror, and is reflected back onto the film which is also curved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observatory Student Invents Device Simplifying the Schmidt Sky Camera | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...design eliminates the necessity for curving the photographic plate by introducing another mirror, a convex spherical mirror onto which the light is reflected immediately before going to the plate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observatory Student Invents Device Simplifying the Schmidt Sky Camera | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

When the "locomotive of history" (Lenin's phrase) took its latest "sharp turn" and thundered dizzily onto that marvel of engineering, the Soviet-Nazi trestle, many a U. S. liberal got train-sick, made ready to leap. But not all. Last week some churchmen still sat in the Pullman, even while the locomotive of history rattled past the unlovely view of bombs raining on Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rev. Reds | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Another veteran of many meets who is back again is Jack Walron, hardy breaststroker. Jack has worked his way onto the Varsity the difficult way, having shown a remarkable improvement in three years of competition. He now leads the butterfly experts on the squad and it is to be expected that his nervy finishes of last year will be seen once more during the next few months. Along with his extended training and experience, they should carry him to clockings in the vicinity of 2:35 in the 200-yard event. Ed Hewitt is shooting for the No. 2 post...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

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