Word: storms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given at the Metropolitan Opera House. Thousands jammed their way through the great front doors, determined not to miss the only performance of the season of the first "Ring" opera. In through the back door went a short, dumpy old lady, in a seagoing hat and an old brown storm coat. She was Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 65 years old, appearing at the Metropolitan for the first time in nine years, 38 years* after her debut there as Erda. It was late in the opera and an audience, unused to operas with no intermission, was shuffling restlessly. Then blue light played...
...prevent reduction in surtaxes, retain estate taxes, retain tax-publicity, etc., broke loose and, with support of not a few regulars, added $100,000,000* to the tax cut in one wild afternoon. Towards evening Mr. Reed of Pennsylvania suggested adjournment: "We should stop now after this excessive storm." And so they waited until the next day when passions had cooled...
Sounding. Into Manhattan steamed the French liner Paris, bearing storm scars, notables, a squad of German engineers and a new German device for deep-sea sounding with which the engineers had experimented on the way over from Havre. This device consisted of a gun on the port side, a microphone abreast on the keel's starboard side, a dial on the bridge. The gun fired a cartridge overside, which exploded a fathom under water. The microphone registered this explosion's last echo from the bottom, permitting the depth to be computed in fathoms...
...periodic attack of solar acne, discharged from its sunspots enormous masses of positive electrons, which swept into the far-flying signal waves with disruptive effect.* There was an earthquake in the Pacific one night which caused further blurring of communication; and two nights running, ships in distress on the storm-tossed Atlantic silenced all stations with their stark, tragic S.O.S.† The European program was flashed from stations in England, France, Germany, Austria and Spain. In Berlin, portly opera singers were obliged to loiter over their beer all night or scramble out of bed long before dawn to warble into...
Faculty telegraph service due to storm conditions was the cause of the errosous statement that Watters and Burns failed to place in their respective events Thursday. They were caught in Provdence in the clutches of the storm, and returned to Cambridge without competing...