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...quickly offered a Metropolitan contract; this time she was ready. In her Met debut as Sieglinde in Die Walküe, Flagstad sang Brünnhilde and Lauritz Melchior Siegmund. Traubel's opulent tones sent critics away raving. Said the New York Times: "The voice is a glorious one." After an Ann Arbor concert, a reviewer put it in good plain Michigan talk: "Miss Traubel hoisted a couple of tones across Hill Auditorium that could have been used for girders...
Fight on! O Tech! This is but the first step in the Great Cause. Perhaps some day--yes, you will have a Dick Tracy character bearing your proud and glorious name. D. E. Gardner...
...greatest attendance record in history, coaches, college fathers and alumni are keeping cars tuned to the future of dear old Siwash, its pigskin stalwarts and the stadium mortgage. As is invariably the case with many Universities that over-emphasize the fall sport, most everyone has a finger in the glorious November bonanza; the lesser sports survive because 50,000 partisans watch the classic tussle with Toothpaste Tech and pay well for the privilege; fresh-water deans rarely overlook the essential value of such a "well-rounded athletic program." Everyone waves the banner except the stalwarts themselves, who are too busy...
...east a good deal of doubt over the accomplishments of the merchant fleet. Using charges of bonanza payments, lack of discipline and even draft-dodging, Baldwin and various American Legion commanders have managed to cloud the record of the Merchant Marine and turn an unfortunate public confusion into a glorious stew of red herrings, union-baiting and war-storying...
...between the publication of Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity (1905) and the explosion of the first atomic bomb (1945), science had a glorious period never equaled before. On dozens of fronts it swept ahead. From laboratories and observatories, from scholars' quiet studies in rapid succession came startling discoveries, most of them wrapped in an opaque web of higher mathematics...