Word: alterations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...poisoning"), Kinkaid, 65, has a reputation for driving his students, often summoned them to his house on weekends to play. He himself is so fascinated by the production of sound that he has been known to sit at a soda fountain blowing through a straw in an effort to alter its tone. Even after his retirement from the orchestra, he will continue to teach. His replacement: James Pellerite, formerly of the Detroit Symphony. He is, of course, a student of William Morris Kinkaid...
...produce other new flower strains, Burpee technicians have used X rays to alter the genes of calendula seeds, created a large double-petaled variety. They have treated seeds with colchicine. a chromosome-multiplying alkaloid that increases a plant's size and changes its characteristics. Colchicine has made possible giant marigolds and snapdragons, and fluffy, ruffled zinnias...
...Seoul high school principal who studied law at New York's Manhattan College (1925). Of his seven children, six are U.S. -educated, two are studying for the priesthood. Once Rhee's Prime Minister and trusted lieutenant, Chang rebelled in 1950 when Rhee proposed to alter the constitution to make himself independent of the Assembly; when Rhee's police threatened to ar rest defiant Assemblymen, Chang pru dently took refuge in the American hospital in Pusan...
...Amend the Sugar Act so as to give the President discretionary authority to alter the import quotas assigned to foreign sugar-producing countries-a measure that the President might find useful in dealing with Castro's Cuba (see BUSINESS...
...grandiose tours such as Khrushchev's are subject to the law of diminishing returns, and Khrushchev's second coming could not alter the fact that their experience with the Chinese Reds has caused Asians to look with a skeptical eye on Communists, whether they bear gifts...