Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record (:20.2) set in 1949 by Southern California's Mel Patton. ¶| James Ray Jordan, 36, a California aircraft worker with a great desire to set a world record, achieved his heart's desire by tanking up on pure oxygen for two minutes, dropping to the bottom of a heated San Diego swimming pool and holding his breath for 8 min. 3½ sec. to crack the record set by France's M. Pauliquen...
...fast outer movements. The first movement, in a modified sonata-form with a bit too much stop-and-go, adopted a Bartokian brutality and approach to dissonance; and the finale dared to end softly with an effective pizzicato and staccato section. Rzewski failed to realize, however, that the bottom range of the violin is easily covered up by too heavy a piano accompaniment. And his piano texture tended to fall into two extremes--simple parallel octaves, or thick massive chords--with little in between. The slow movement was much too long, contained enough material for four movements, and lapsed into...
...Normal effective singing range is roughly two octaves, more with voice training. Manhattan-born Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas has three octaves, up to F sharp above the staff. The great Caruso had a C -only an octave and four notes lower than Callas' high note, a bottom C down in the bass range, three octaves lower...
...worth 20), an X, V, L or C is still ten, five, 50 or 100 no matter where it appears. Thus, in finding the answer to "What is XXVIII multiplied by XII?", a Roman might have multiplied from left to right the top number by each numeral in the bottom number. Taking X (10) times XXVIII, he would get 20X5, ten Vs and 30 Is, which would become CCLXXX. After adding XXVIII and XXVIII to this, he would get CCLXXXXXXXV-VIIIIII, or CCCXXXVI...
...eagles have theoretically been worthless. Yet hope springs eternal, and several thousand bonds are annually traded on the American Stock Exchange, where they move up and down according to the temperature of U.S.-Soviet relations. The Nazi-Soviet pact in 1939 sent the $1,000 bonds to $1.86, their bottom; the Yalta honeymoon with the U.S. (1945) raised them to a peak $220. They dropped to $20 in the 1950 cold war, rose to $125 on the strength of last summer's Geneva spirit, are currently quoted at $53-75-Periodically, the Soviets talk about honoring the obligation...