Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Impresario Paul Sydow refused in her behalf. Said he: "I don't want her to go like Marion Talley. Besides, she has enough to do to learn her part in ten days." In this same favorite opera, Soprano Anna Turkel of Woonsocket, R. I. touched fame by a triumph in the Cairo opera house witnessed by U. S. Minister William M. Jardine, Prime Minister Ismail Sidky Pasha and many another important Egyptian (TIME, Feb. 23). Soprano Turkel started with at least one advantage over Housewife Wallack. She used to sell candy and cigarets in the Metropolitan Opera...
...professional gossip, Miss Leggatt; its Citizen Fix-It, Colonel Parkin-thorpe; its shady businessman, Sir Herbert Livewright; its lady-with-a-past, Mrs. Gillingham; its rank & file of unremarkable characters who in real life would be of interest only to themselves. It is Author Mackail's especial triumph that he raises their realism to the plane of fiction. This year in Tiverton Square sees its tragedy of first love: in the eyes of the Square a victory of middle-aged common sense over two hopeless young romantics. The Author. Denis George Mackail is only 39 but The Square Circle...
...chemistry of sugars is so abstruse that Dr. Richard Fay Jackson's identification of three new sugars at the U. S. Bureau of Standards last week was a little triumph. He found the new sugars in inulin, a starchlike ingredient of certain roots, in the course of the Bureau's researches to establish an inulin-sugar industry for the U. S. When starch is boiled in water and otherwise suitably treated it breaks down into glucose, or grape sugar.* When inulin is handled similarly, fructose, or fruit sugar, is the chief result...
...Harvard triumph was due to the fact that Page on the mound kept the Wildcat batters from connecting disastrously, either passing the players absolutely, or forcing them to hit weakly into the infield or to pole easy pop flies to the outfield. While at times the Crimson hurler seemed distinctly without control, throwing wide of the plate and alternately forcing the batters to duck hastily, each time he seemed about to load the bases for New Hampshire via the base on balls route the visitors failed to make any timely bingles, allowing Page to retire the side on easy outs...
...reduction was largely the triumph of a condition over a theory. Paper mills have been operating at about 50% of capacity. Canada Power & Paper has been unable to earn interest on its bonds. Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. is in a receivership...