Word: advent
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Asked about 1975, Franz now says that the 6,000-year chronology is correct, but the seventh day of Creation did not begin until Eve was created. Thus the date for the End has to be extended by the amount of time between the advent of Adam and of Eve-an interval not yet revealed (previous Witness publications had stated that Adam and Eve were created in the same year...
Ironically, the IBM case would not have been possible before the advent of the computer. The sheer numbers involved are staggering. IBM supplied an estimated 60 million pages of documents and other computer concerns provided 115 million more. The courtroom has now seen 4 million of those pages, through 50 witnesses and about 4,000 exhibits and 50,000 stenographic transcript pages of testimony; IBM has listed 350 additional witnesses for future swearing...
...show's creators were cashing in on the public's fascination with theatrical life, and with the disparity between onstage glamour and backstage heartache. The musical portrayal of stage life would, with the immediate advent of sound movies, be taken up in a host of Hollywood films such as The Singing Fool, Show of Shows, Hollywood Revue, Footlight Parade, Forty-Second Street, the Broadway Melody series, and the Gold Diggers series...
...jockey's run was aided greatly by poor track conditions resulting from heavy rain, which are a much greater detriment to horses than to human runners. With the possible advent of synthetic racing turf, this one vestige of hope for the jockey will also be lost...
...mono in 1954. remains the pianist's grandest reading of the work, and Reiner's surging accompaniment turns it into the most satisfying D-Minor on records. The new reissue is not in mono or in phony stereo, however. Back in 1954, four years before the advent of stereo, RCA was already experimenting with the technique, and taped this performance simultaneously but separately in stereo. The results can stand comparison with many of today's recordings...