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...gods, needs the gold to pay a ransom, seeks out Alberich, takes ring and helmet from him. "Cursed is he who wears that ring," cries Alberich. Then lovely Erda, mother of the Norns, appears to Wotan. "Twilight shall come upon the gods," she says; "their proud towers will crash down. Woe to Wotan." Shaken by this awful utterance, Wotan gives the ring to the Giants, forthwith leads the gods over a rainbow to Walhalla while through the brassy progress of his going rings a sound of far despair-the cry of the Rhinemaidens who lament, with sad throats from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ring | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...Crimson will attempt to crash back into the winning column tonight with a new line-up starting its first official game. The change, which Coach Wachter believes will be permanent, sends Rauh to the center position which he held on last year's five, while Leekley moves to forward, displacing Jones. The change has been imminent for some time, as something was needed to bolster the attack which has been the chief trouble so far this season. Not only does this change give the quintet added height and weight, factors which were by no means unimportant in the Columbia defeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL TEAM GOES TO TECH COURT TONIGHT | 1/24/1925 | See Source »

...Crash-proof passenger cabins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Jan. 5, 1925 | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...placing the tanks as far as possible from the engine, particularly not along the line of the motor and the longitudinal axis of the machine. The inherent stability which the code insists on would lessen chances of losing-control. Grover C. Loening, famed aeronautical engineer, has suggested that crash-proof passenger cabins might be built, immune from injury no matter the height of fall. This may be too much to hope for. The code at least demands that all edges of cockpits shall be well padded and that the padding should be extended to cover the front, part of cockpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: A Safety Code | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...cafeteria. He saw changes coming. He knew that the cafeteria was doomed. For more than two decades he had run the dinning halls successfully and well. He knew that the men who were eating in the cafeteria would not fleck to Memorial when the cafeteria was closed. Before the crash came he resigned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

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