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...advertised to do without harming the record. Notice that this is a very favorable test from the standpoint of RCA, since if the record would wear at all, it should wear down to the shape of the needle (it's supposed to fit at the outset.) A more strenuous test would be to use the needle on different records for a thousand times...
...tenor). Most tenors have fairly light voices: their honey-voiced wailing is orchestrated to an accompaniment that will not drown them out. But Wagner had no use for such lightweights: the true Heldentenor must be able to out-boom a phalanx of trombones. Richard Wagner's heroes are strenuous fellows, who would willingly break a blood vessel to get to Walhalla, and Wagner saw to it that their tones should ring with desperate effort. Prince of Heldentenors is Lauritz Melchior. His triple-brass larynx (which earns him the same top Metropolitan pay that Flagstad gets: $1,000 a performance...
...detested his son and feared his daughter-in-law, their merrymaking was impertinent. A year later George Augustus and Caroline were summarily expelled from the royal household, set up an "opposition court" at Leicester House, where Careerists Pope and Gay and the ugly Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield, exerted their strenuous good manners...
...McNair '42, who reports that all the arrangements turned out very satisfactorily. The price for food was fixed to one dollar a day, including a made-up lunch, and a cook was engaged to get supper ready since the boys were content to sit around the fire after a strenuous...
Last night the squad went through a tough serimmage with the North-eastern Huskies, the one team which the Crimson has defeated, and this afternoon Fesler will put them through another short, drill to close a strenuous four days of practice...