Word: size
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reached Victoria, they apparently had decided not to press their leapfrog luck too far. Leaving a fortune behind, they took only $28,000 worth of jewelry, and for the fourth and last time locked their doors behind them. Their record take: goods worth $700,000, chosen so judiciously for size and value that the whole caboodle would fit in a suitcase...
...most opulent dramatic soprano voice in the land belongs to a singer rarely seen on an opera stage: 39-year-old Eileen Farrell. For more than a decade Singer Farrell has been dazzling audiences and critics alike from concert-hall stages. But partly because of her size (5 ft. 6 in., 185 lbs.), partly because of her wooden acting, she did not appear in a fully staged opera until 1956 (Cavalleria Rusticana in Florida). Since then, she has made occasional guest appearances-IL Trovatore and La Gioconda with the Chicago Lyric Opera, Medea and Ariadne auf Naxos with...
...account with the execution of Mary Stuart, Roman Catholic Queen of Scotland, in February 1587. Partly as a result, Spain's King Philip II, known as "the Prudent," abandoned prudence long enough to let himself be talked into a campaign designed to cut Protestant Elizabeth down to size. The project, tersely referred to as The Enterprise, was hastily begun. From the start, nothing went right with armaments, provisions, recruiting, and 3½ months be fore the Armada was to sail, its aged admiral died. King Philip unaccountably replaced him with the Duke of Medina Sidonia who objected miserably that...
...Band's characteristic financial troubles started early, and tea dances were sponsored in the early years for extra revenue. The organization never, however, was subsidized or controlled by the University. The Band constantly increased its size each year until there were about 80 men marching in 1927. Even then, improvisation was necessary. For instance, at one game violins had to be borrowed to play the missing clarinet parts in the football songs. Two of the members that year were Leroy Anderson '29, renowned composer, and Malcolm Holmes '28. From 1942 until his untimely death in 1953, Mal Holmes...
...useless for space work. Meanwhile, the Russians were pushing ahead with ballistic missiles. By 1953, when a team of U.S. physicists headed by the late Hungarian-born John von Neumann devised a way of making a thermonuclear warhead small enough to be delivered by a ballistic missile of economic size, the Russians had a long head start in ballistic-missile development...