Word: consisting
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...doesn't stop at the plot's source, however. You can hear it in the circus tunes and old-country fiddle solos that keep seeping into the score, or in Stravinsky's indifference -- though I suppose the score is pretty enough -- to what is merely "pretty," ("beauty does not consist in letting the ears lie back," Charles Ives said). He insists instead on treating the solo instruments and the singing or acerbic melodies as individuals, free to speak for themselves for as long as it takes them. Above all you can hear it in his trust for the most vulgar...
...summer awards consist of a grant to cover the expenses of a summer research project contributing to a senior thesis or other "substantial project," Ernest R. May, professor of History and director of the Institute of Politics, said yesterday...
Often the gifts Harvard receives are not in the form of cash. Many donations consist of blocks of stock, plots of land, and occasionally things more bizarre. In 1963, the University acquired a stamp collection appraised at $16,000, but on it were two conditions: that the money be used to establish a scholarship fund, and that the stamp collection not be liquidated until 2013. Harvard's Treasurer, George F. Bennett '33, keeps the collections recorded in the University ledgers at a current value of one dollar...
Fish Heads. Before 1969 food was kept at near starvation level at the more severe camps. For many prisoners, there were only two meals a day, six hours apart, and they might consist of nothing more than a bowl of watery soup, occasionally with a fish head in it. The bread was often wormy and the rice sandy. Lieut. Commander Knutson said that he and his fellow prisoners ate with one hand on their rice and the other on their soup bowl in order to keep the cockroaches from taking over...
Ernest F. Graves, a representative of Cambridge Electric, told the Council that the station would consist of several small gray buildings in addition to relays and transformers and that it would omit no smokes or odors. He said that special equipment would limit noise from the station to 6.5 decibels...