Word: compressional
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Written at the end of Schoenberg's tutelage of Webern in 1909, the work is more approachable than his later 12-tone compositions, for it is only occasional contrapuntal and moves with a melodic continuity quite different from the strict counterpoint he adopted later. Continual variation of melodic fragments creates...
The sports complex will feature a 25,000-seat main arena building completely free from the interior columns that give present Garden fans a frequent crick in the neck. The new design by Soapman- Turned-Architect Charles Luckman will achieve its pillarless view by what he calls "the first use...
"I didn't know when I was hit whether I would be able to walk off the field or not, but I did," Ravenel related, a bit proudly. "The doctors had ice and a compression bandage on the leg in five minutes, and by the end of the game I...
But as it rose, Mrs. Rogers felt something snap in her back. X rays disclosed a compression fracture, with one vertebra crushed. But despite the injury to her spinal column, she suffered no paralysis. This week, fitted with a special brace, she is at St. Joseph's Hospital. What...
G.M. was not yet ready to gamble on a rear engine. One reason: Cole, working together with Cadillac Chief John Gordon (now G.M.'s president), developed a new short-stroke V-8 front engine with an increased compression. It proved so successful that it set the basic design for...