Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lyrics composed by Victor Herbert so many years ago stand the strain of repetition remarkably well. It is in the chorus songs of the lighter sort that the picture achieves its happiest moments. When the Princess tosses off a lilting melody in the music shop, or when she sails with the "casket brides" sent to bewive the men of New France, the effect is bright, colorful and joyfully inane. The damp scenes occur when things attempt to become serious. A Gilbert and Sullivan opus maintains a strain so consistently absurd that it is convincing; "Naughty Marietta" is only sporadically...
...victor was Bernard Mannes Baruch...
Instantly Chinese League Delegate Victor Hoo buzzed in to sting the Secretary General. "What does he mean by saying Japan now has no 'obligations'?" asked Dr. Hoo. "It is not for M. Avenol to interpret the Covenant of the League of Nations. In a wide sense he has ventured to contradict Article i, Paragraph 3!" This article provides that a League member may withdraw after two years' notice only if "all its international obligations and all its obligations under this Covenant shall have been fulfilled at the time of its withdrawal...
Ballots have been sent out to the 300 members of Phillips Brooks House for the election of next year's officers. Nine nominees, all Juniors, have been put up, three for each of the three positions which will be left vacant. The present encumbents, Frederick A. Webster '35, president, Victor H. Kramer '35, vice-president, and E. Francis Bowditch '35, secretary treasurer, will retire from office on May 1 at which time the new officers will be inaugurated...
Last week Drs. Newcomb Kinney Chancy, Victor Carl Hamister and Stanley Warren Glass of National Carbon Co. recapitulated their recent experiments and reports for the Electrochemical Society convened in New Orleans. For nearly a century there has been controversy over whether carbon was liquefied in the heat of the arc. The Cleveland chemists showed conclusively that the carbon does not liquefy but sublimes directly from a solid to a vapor as dry ice does. The sublimation point is a fundamental constant of the element and represents the maximum arc temperature. Determining this constant within narrow limits provides, according...