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...songs issued in an "album" of four 78 rpm discs, and that was the basis for this 12-song LP, which has never gone out of print. Bing does a little globetrotting here, adding songs with Irish and Hawaiian settings, but it's basically that warm Crosby baritone, equally adept at solemnity (a robust "Adeste Fidelis") and swingin' (the vamps of "Jing-jing-jing-jingle bells" that he swaps with the Andrews Sisters). Among holiday LPs, this is the all-time champ...
...Jeong ’07 in show-stealing solos on the violin.Jeong’s perfect pitch was especially poignant as it persisted through “TheHero’s Battlefield,” a percussion-heavy section that reintroduced the trumpets.The trumpet work was especially adept at conveying the calamity of battle in a controlled manner. The last two movements, “The Hero’s Works of Peace” and “The Hero’s Retreat from the World and Fulfillment,” brilliantly capped off the performance with...
...Losos said that as the lizards became more arboreal in an attempt to avoid the predator, natural selection would favor shorter-legged lizards, who would be more adept at maneuvering in trees...
...Still, Indian businessmen are proving to be unusually adept in the international arena. It helps that millions of them already speak English, the global language of commerce. India is also a free-market democracy with a legal system that, though frustratingly slow, is easy for Westerners to understand. The country has longstanding cultural and trade ties with the rest of the world, which adds "a comfort factor" to its business dealings overseas, says Andrew Cahn, chief executive of UK Trade & Investment, a government body that supports foreign companies looking to invest in Britain. To be sure, Indian companies occasionally...
...answer for the barrage from deep that other teams launched, and after opposing defenses clamped down heavily on sharp-shooting Jim Goffredo as the season went on, Harvard had no one else who could consistently knock down threes on the offensive end. The Crimson was also much less adept at moving the ball to the open shooter and maintaining possession, ranking last in assist-turnover ratio.“When we weren’t able to get open shots from the [three-point line] we tried to just get shots up...we took bad shots,” Goffredo...