Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...musicians asked me if it wasn't true that when I hit my high C's on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. They had not thought that it really was my trumpet getting up there on the C's" After a triumphant engagement at the French Palladium, the management presented him with a horn of solid gold...
...Saturday afternoon From the moment that the first French Horn strains echoed from Appleton Chapel back to the band arrayed on Widener steps till the crowd followed Mcl Holmes, his baton, and his orchestra over the Lars Anderson Bridge into the ever ever land that is Cambridge on a triumphant Saturday night, there was never a doubt but that a wonderful time...
...engage in). "What is the use of occupying a high position, while degrading one's character?'' he once wrote. The theme of his era, says Dr. Lin, is a "study of national degeneration through party strife, ending in the sapping of national strength and the triumphant misrule of the petty politicians...
Squabble. When U.S. air scientists heard the triumphant trumpetings of the British press, they protested that they, too, had shot rocket-driven missiles through the sonic barrier. So they had, but their missiles were even less airplanelike than Vicky. Even the initially controlled V-2 (which reaches nearly five times the speed of sound) is not supported by the air, as a genuine airplane must be. The U.S. Navy's ramjet, or "flying stovepipe," is merely a power plant boosted into the air for a brief, uncontrolled flight...
...Triumphant Life. Planck himself had triumphs, too. He became rector of the University of Berlin, and won the 1918 Nobel Prize for Physics. But when the Nazis came into power, German scientists with Jewish blood (including Einstein) were hounded out of the country. Many "Aryan" scientists fled too; but old Max Planck stayed behind. In 1934 (he was 76), he went in person to Hitler, to demand an end of Jewish persecution. Hitler turned his back while the old man talked. The following year, Planck was removed from the presidency of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft (a scientific society). When...