Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the help of their newly acquired cattrack plow, a tractor with enter pillar treads, the department claims it is ready to cope with any blizzard and have the local University grounds dug out in 12 hours. This includes the grounds of the Business and Medical Schools as well as those of the College and Graduate Center...
...best singers of both Europe and the U.S. to the Met, the new manager has the finest roster of singers in the world. If they are not the finest in history, that is less the fault of the Met than of history. Says 70-year-old Mrs. August Belmont, pillar of the Met's board: "Caruso and Chaliapin were the kind of singers who appear only once in a hundred years. Except for them, we have just as good singers today...
...year long, in the sky over Pittsburgh, Youngstown and a dozen other steel towns, there was a pillar of smoke by day and the glow of fires by night, as the mills worked at capacity. They ladled out 97 million tons of the metal, almost 10 million more than in the peak year of World War II, and twice as much as all the steel mills in the rest of the world...
...standard repertory, e.g., Carmen, Tannhäuser, Traviata, La Gioconda, Bing aimed to get the Met variety considerably higher on its toes. He handed the responsibility to Lucia Chase's Ballet Theatre; Lucia, in turn, delegated the job to her principal choreographer, greying, London-born Antony (Pillar of Fire) Tudor...
...wrong direction. The ferocity of Mongol hordes, commanded by a leering Orson Welles, is neatly foreshadowed in scenes of a barbaric tournament. But when they pillage and burn Chinese cities, the picture has nothing to show for it but some lines of post-mortem dialogue and a pillar of fiery smoke on the far horizon. An oily merchant announces that he is sending a caravan to Kublai Khan with rich gifts, including 81 beautiful women; Director Hathaway shows plenty of caravan, but he never brings on the dancing girls...