Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes in the Harvard Archive, the conductor needed to impress "on this Society the necessity of minding the pianos and fortes which have always been treated with more or less contempt in this Society." Not so Friday evening: Dr. Henry Swoboda, in his first Cambridge appearance, and a new, bigger-than-ever HRO, gave their audience the sight and sound of a professional symphony orchestra...
...come to the concert expecting to hear an anemic student orchestra, the first five minutes of the performance were petrifying. The sound of Giannini's Frescobaldiana, which received its New England premiere Friday, rolled out bigger, smoother, and more controlled than anything we could remember the HRO emitting before. Difficult transitions--full orchestra dropping away to unveil a quartet of woodwinds--passed in untroubled succession. Massive string sections--nine violas and eleven cellos--luxuriated in lush tone. A fine solo on the English horn by Barbara Cohen introduced the second movement. And Swoboda provided the histrionics on the podium that...
...time-honored system has never been trouble-free. Breaker points become worn or corroded; spark plugs get fouled with carbon or lead from souped-up gasoline. Lately trouble has increased. Engines are getting bigger and faster; their highly compressed fuel charges need fatter sparks to explode them, but the conventional system delivers weaker sparks at high speeds. So Detroit's automakers are warming toward ignition systems that take advantage of modern electronics...
...which last week went public after 15 years as a federation of independent dealers. Now, with Milner as chairman, National intends to convert most of its 477 stations across the U.S. into franchised operations. It also plans to open at least 100 new stations in a bid for a bigger share of the billion-dollar-a-year rent-a-car business...
...Britain outlawed the slave trade, and Royal Navy squadrons cruised the African coast.'But these watchdogs were eluded or defied by the ships of the newly independent American colonies. Southern planters needed slaves to maintain an expanding economy. To meet the demand, Northern shipowners sent ever bigger and faster ships to Africa loaded with New England rum, as well as guns, to exchange for slaves. "Worter yr. Rum as much as possible," one owner counseled his captain, "and sell as much by the short mesuer as you can." In the 1840s, so many Yankee ships from Salem traded...