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Word: wreak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wolverines to keep their slate clean and chalk up a point for the Mid-west in the intersectional rivalry tables. The only thing at present that may make the game a toss-up is the spirit of the Harvard tam, which may break forth in all its fury and wreak revenge on Michigan and bring a victory to Coach Horween in his last year as Harvard coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Powerful and Undefeated Michigan Is Favorite Over Weakened Harvard Eleven in Intersectional Battle Today | 11/8/1930 | See Source »

Bystanders reflected on the havoc that uplift organizations might wreak by the purification of opera. Few plots are essentially nice; heroines are usually either unfortunate girls who have been seduced (Marguerite in Faust, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana) or unfaithful ones (Nedda in Pagliacci, Fiora in L'Amore dei Tre Re, Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde). In To sea the plot hinges on whether Tosca will give herself to Scarpia to save Cavaradossi. Double beds are the most important properties in Der Rosenkavalier. Don Giovanni is a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Purified Opera | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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