Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irene Kadlec hunched down closer. With sympathy and perseverance, she coaxed forth the answers to a dozen other questions. She was doing her job as an interviewer for the Gallup Poll...
...came a lot closer than I expected," Putnam delared after the race. "Our dinghies won the first heat, but the Tech sailors made up for it and then some in the next...
...music for me." He does not trust music that does not touch his heart. He feels that he was a pioneer in his youth, and that it is now up to younger conductors to pioneer the music of their generation. His ambition now, he says, is "to come closer to the secrets of Beethoven and a few other eternal masters...
...most music lovers, Toscanini already comes closer to the secrets than anyone before him. He does his best to ignore the legend of his own greatness, but he knows that it is around. At a rehearsal of his all-Debussy concert a month ago, he was flushed with a fever of 102 degrees. His friends tried to persuade the old man not to conduct, but he was insistent. Said he, as he trudged out to the podium: "Sometimes I must act like Toscanini...
...normal people and by schizophrenics was startling. Readings from the schizophrenics were very high, averaging around 65 microvolts (a microvolt is one-thousandth of a volt); normal people never sent the readings higher than about eleven microvolts. As the insane patients improved under treatment, their electrical readings fell closer & closer to normal. But if they stayed sick, their electrical marks stayed high...