Word: magic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refused again to have Nazi stations pick up his broadcasts, relented only when Germany threatened to spoil Die Meistersinger by withdrawing two of its most distinguished stars-Baritone Hermann Nissen (Hans Sachs),Tenor Henk Noort (Walther). Herbert Graf had plotted entirely new staging for Mozart's Magic Flute, and Toscanini planned to conduct it four times. Of the 27 performances scheduled Toscanini would direct twelve, two more than Conductor Bruno Walter. To Walter was allotted Mozart's Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro, Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, Weber's Euryanthe. Conductor Hans Knapperts-busch...
...black Zulu. On the desert trek the reckless fL'e almost perish from thirst. In the mountains they are tolerated by Kukuana savages only because the superstitious blacks believe bemonocled Captain Good to be a white god. Before they attain the mines he is required to demonstrate white magic in the form of an opportunity-scheduled eclipse. Umbopa proclaims himself the rightful, monkey-furred Kukuana chief...
Daphnia, a one-fourth inch relative of lobsters and crabs, can live in ten drops of water. It is small enough for its whole body to be studied through a microscope and transparent enough to be projected upon a magic lantern screen (see cut, p. 32). These qualities make Daphnia a fine biological subject on which to test drugs, Professor Viehoever recently realized. For Professor Viehoever, Daphnia solved an important strychnine puzzle, he enthusiastically told the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Denver this week. This bitter, crystalline product of nux vomica is used as a tonic, stimulant...
...MAGIC OF MONARCHY-Kingsley Martin-Knopf ($1.25). "What was really behind the abdication" of Edward VIII; a lucid, 125-page explanation tracing the last century's British opinion about the Monarchy, by the editor of the liberal New Statesman and Nation...
During this period six college presidents were touched with the magic wand. Except for A. Lawrence Lowell the recognition was not due to any starting contribution to education, but rather to a strange habit of reciprocity among American colleges. In the field of government Samuel Seabury rendered a great public service, but degrees were similarly bestowed upon A1 smith, Orden Mills, and Secretary Wallance. Even the casual reader of the Bible will admit that it much easier for a rich man to enter the Sever Quadrangle than the gates of heaven, and it is hard to see how being President...