Word: monster
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Another uncouth monster is represented by a cast of the so-called Pareiasaurus, from the only specimen ever discovered, and now preserved in the British Museum...
...monuments of antiquity, a grand historical torchlight procession representing scenes from Greek history, and a series of representations of dramatic masterpieces, beginning with a tragedy by Sophocles and ending with Wagner's "Lohengrin," and a special Olympic hymn by a modern Greek composer is to be sung by a monster chorus. A great attendance by athletes and scholars from all the world is expected...
...believe that the study of imaginative literature tends to sanity of mind, and to keep the Caliban Common Sense, a very useful monster in his proper place from making himself King over us. It is the study of order, proportion, arrangement, of the highest and purest Reason. It teaches that chance has less to do with success than forethought, will and work...
...fifth of the series of Symphony Concerts will be given in Sanders Theatre tonight at 7.45. The programme is as follows: Symphony No. 1, C minor, Brahms; Aria from "Alceste," Gluck; Overture, "Euryanthe," Weber; Aria, "Ocean, Thou Mighty Monster," Weber; Overture, "1812," Tschaikowsky. Mrs. Amalia Materna will be soloist...
...many marvellous stories, some of pigmies and others of monstrous creatures. These stories, improbable as they seemed, all agreed with one another. Convinced finally that there must be some truth in them, he determined to push on into the forest. There he was so fortunate as to kill a monster gorilla, the first gorilla killed by any white man since Hannibal slew them two thousand five hundred years...