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...your startled eye and dazed mind travel across blasted plains that frost the blood, stun the imagination; over mountain chains covered with age-old snows; across glacial rivers that race like maddened locomotives-barefooted, hungry-Proving That It Can Be Done No Matter What...
...frequently been given public attention when she conducted orchestras (TIME, Jan. 19). A woman, Saint Cecelia, is the patron saint of Music. At all these notable women, male musicians have sniffed now and again. Other women, or sympathetic males, resenting the sniffs, have taken up arms, started anew the age-old controversy: "Should women confine their fiddling to the home? Is Love's Old Sweet Song the most ambitious composition that any female, however talented, should attempt to render?" Such questions are, of course, absurd; nor are there many remaining critics who can establish a reputation for mordacity...
...West Point was lucky. The whole army may well drop to its knees and offer sacrifice and thanksgiving to Mars that the person who discovered the mistake was a friend. Imagine the result if an Annapolis man had seen it first. The age-old rivalry between army and navy would have ended then and there with the middles on top, chanting a newly-found epithet, perfectly precise and utterly unanswerable...
...description of a storm and its awful power over man as I have seen in many a day. My commendation will mean little but I felt that I must express myself and that it might interest you to know someone else appreciated a really imaginative attempt to do an age-old subject in a new-age...
Professor Miethe's reported discovery that quicksilver could be transformed into gold, an apparent solution of an age-old problem and a realization of the dream of ancient alchemists, was an accident, as were many other scientific discoveries. Using a quartz lamp and quicksilver vapor, he was endeavoring to determine the effect of ultra violet rays upon certain materials. An electric current of 170 volts and of a comparatively low amperage was passed through the lamp...