Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ralston Crawford wrote that his abstraction of a Hawaiian fishing port, Kewalo, showing two or three slices of plane geometry and a porthole, simply reflected his "interest in finding and expressing ... a bit of order." He seemed to be on safe enough ground there...
...abrupt ending, with a savage blast from the whole orchestra, left the audience gaping (muttered the perspiring tympanisf. "For this kind of thing I should have six arms"). When the audience recovered, they gave Harris' Third long and generous applause. Not so the critics. Wrote one: "Maybe a bit discouraging to certain ears, but full of brilliant sonority. No doubt the symphony is a beautiful and interesting work of modern music...
Since then, Texas and its university have been hearing quite a bit from Communist Addington. As youth director for the state party, he began to appear before committees of the legislature to protest against segregation or to support anti-lynching bills. To Texans, his favorite tactic seemed to be tactlessness. Once, when a member of the legislature asked him what he was studying at the state university, he snarled, "That is none of your concern." The angrier the legislators got, the more Addington seemed to like...
Overall U.S. production was slackening a bit. The Federal Reserve Board's production index (1935-39 average 100) dropped two points in February to 189, five points below a year ago. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' cost of living index slipped 1.1% between Jan. 15 and Feb. 15 to 169-the greatest monthly drop in nine years (but the index was still 27% above June 1946, when OPA was killed...
After bowing to two southern teams last season, the Crimson went on to beat everyone else except Cornell and Princeton. This year the team is much greener, but Barnaby wouldn't be a bit surprised if his players were able to do the same thing again...