These are splendid results of enterprise properly encouraged, and I am giving only a fraction of the information in my possession, for there are no less than ninety-four theatres in Europe, where opera is performed in German, and of these seventy-nine are sufficiently well equipped to mount any great work of Wagner's, Meyerbeer's, etc.
"The Operatic Problem"
William Johnson Galloway
With the perilous Big Lead behind us, a bounding course was set to reach the eighty-fifth parallel on the ninety-seventh meridian.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Although we had made long marches and really great speed, we had advanced only ninety-six miles in the nine days.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook