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...audience could not be more than politely moved by the graceful insipidities of the old score-that the days were past when a perfect trill was a signal for young men in evening clothes to unhitch the horses of a prima donna's carriage and pull her home themselves. The Chicago enthusiasts stopped short of this. But they held up the performance after she had sung the "Caro Nome," and gave Luella Melius ten curtain calls at the end of the act. Old Critic Glenn Dillard Gunn declared that he remembered only three such scenes in the last...
...Elis Pull Down Goal Posts...
...that he is "37th in descent from Fatima, daughter of the true Prophet," secured him the office. He was installed at the Great Mosque of Tetnan, and three days of rejoicing followed. Technically he is to exercise "temporal and spiritual authority" in the Caliphate. Actually, of course, Spain will pull most of the temporal springs...
...Hartsough Mirror-Scales are said to be 100 times as sensitive as the Eoetvos Balance, an instrument now in common use which determines the gravitational pull of sections of the earth's crust. Oil-bearing crust, being light, exerts slightly less gravity pull; ore-bearing crust, slightly more...
...light. The ray is split by two half-mirrors, being reunited on the scale-mirrors, where any disparity between the wavelengths of the reunited portions is clearly seen as shadow bands. Thus, when the object weighed (1/29,000 oz. of quartz filament) is lightened by the pull of sun or moon, the scale tips, the wavelength no longer matches (having traveled different distances), and the shadow-bands reflect weight variations caused by gravity within small fractions of a second. To eliminate error, the ray used was a green one, of uniform wavelength, passed from a mercury lamp through an interferometer...