Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston's brief and borrowed opera season has passed in a wave of enthusiasm. The Chicago company was hospitably received, and it departed with a cordial invitation to come again next year. Old music-lovers, recalling earlier days when the city could boast its native opera, were inclined to be suspicious of this imported product; but most of them had good sense enough not to cut off their ears to spite their faces, and made the best of what was offered them...
...government than to their own race. The help which they gave to England in the Palestine campaign was due entirely to patriotism for England. In France, Judaism has almost disappeared, but a sharp contrast to this is to be found in Germany and German Austria. There, there is a wave of anti-Semitic feeling which has found expression in the murder of such men as Rathenau...
...unfaithful to her husband while he is off fighting the invaders. His blind father knows the guilt but not the name of the lover, Avito, so he keeps silence. The husband Manfredo, on his return, is coldly received, but goes again to war with the pledge that Flora will wave to him until his retinue is out of sight. Beguiled by Avito, she leaves the battlements too soon; the blind father strangles her, the husband returns, and the two wooers die (as opera demands) by kissing the poisoned lips of the corpse. It is all very Absurd, very passionate...
...Lakes and the Rio Grande. The government itself has begun to display distress signals. The Kellogg-White Federal Radio Control Bill has been introduced to bring some sort of order out of the present chaos of jazz-bands, sermons, crop reports, and sporting syndicates running simultaneously on the same wave lengths...
...Physical Colloquium today, which will be held at 5 o'clock in Room 3 of Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Mr. R. F. Field will speak on "Precision Calibration of Wave-Meters...