Word: account
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Your Nov. 26 account of Elvis Presley and his new picture Love Me Tender is terrible. The things said about Elvis were very cruel...
When Rossby heard about these winds, he saw at once that they must be associated with the long, high-altitude waves that he had discovered. He named them the "jet stream." After the war he worked out a highly mathematical theory to account for the wind. Now the jet stream is used in the flight-planning of both civil and military airplanes. Its behavior can be predicted to a considerable extent by Rossby's theories...
...operations of an office which supervises some 1200 students working on regular part-time jobs and supplies many more with short-term "casual" jobs. Although these casual jobs are usually the more interesting and unusual ones, it is the regular kind which are the more important and which account for the close connection between the Student Employment Office and the College's Financial Aid program...
...highly competent. The orchestra sat in the middle of the Sanders stage, while the singers, in modern evening dress, sang on all sides of it. Aside from a reluctance to act as lustily as the text indicated, the cast, headed by Gloria Lane and Jon Crain, gave a good account of itself. The voices were sonorous and the singers pronounced Chester Kallman's translation very carefully. The opera's closing duet, "O Beloved," is one of the most lovely lyrical pieces ever written...
...title story, Tehilla, is perhaps the one most deeply infused with the Jewish past. On the surface a straightforward account of the saintly life and pious death of a venerable matriarch, it is luminous with ghetto wisdom, Hassidic mysticism and that sense of close kinship with God that has been the buckler of the Jews through the centuries. The Israeli writers are clearly still groping toward a native form of expression, and this book gives an indication of their potential. No other group of writers, except possibly the Anglo-Indians, have so great an opportunity of drawing on the inexhaustible...