Word: wave
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Adam. 3. Waltz, "Bei uns z'Haus," Strauss. 4. Selection, Serenade," Herbert. 5. Overture, "Mignon," A. Thomas. 6. Three Dances from "Henry VIII," German. 7. "En Sourdine," for Strings, Tellam. 8. Wedding March, Mendelssohn. 9. Overture, "Poet and Peasant," Suppe. 10. Pizzicato from "Sylvia," Delibes. 11. Waltz, "The Wave," Metra. 12. March, "Under the Double Eagle," Wagner...
...results of the reform seemed transitory. Individual lives were undoubtedly affected by the intense antagonism shown toward the Church, and many weak minds succumbed to fanaticism. We are now on the receding wave of the movement and therefore we are in a position to see the mistakes made in earlier times and to profit by them...
...higher rate is hoped for. To obtain this a remarkably large propeller will be used, the blades of which are protected by a deep false keel. The boat differs from the new Weld launch in that she has a round stern and is intended to travel on her own wave, which it is admitted will be a large one. The Weld launch, on the contrary, is designed to make a small wave which will be of advantage to the crews...
...fifth lecture given by M. de Regnier, Saturday afternoon, was on "A New School of Poetry, the Decadents and the Symbolists." Poetry in France had been in great peril from the ever rising wave of naturalism and realism, to which all the poets were making concessions. But when the needed reaction came, poetry was thrust aside, and the poets, accepting their solitude, broke apart into groups. This was the situation in 1880 and it was a serious one as it tended to the establishment of a perilous byzantinism. The young poets of 1885 had a peculiar and a strange language...
...definite, I am dull." When he came into the University the cry went up that the pulpit had lost its power. He quietly took his book, and convincingly proved that the pulpit would henceforth be a power. He was a prophet of idealism in the midst of a wave of materialism. At a time when Christianity was narrowly conceived he arose and made men thrill with a new power...