Word: counters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been gathered by instruments borne in rockets and unmanned balloons (small balloons have gone to 100,000 ft.) but the sum total of knowledge is not great. It is known that no clouds or rain occur in the belt. There is a notion that the prevailing wind is easterly, counter to the earth's movement; but Professor Piccard last week snorted: "That's a lot of bosh." Also it was supposed that the stratosphere visitor in daytime would see stars shine in a purple sky. Piccard's sky was deep, dark blue but starless...
...Music Harmony and Counter-point. Music Buildings
...Music (Harmony and Counter point...
...Vagabond in desperation is going to attempt the horrors of mental travail as a counter irritant. Today at 10 he will go to Paine Hall to hear the last movement of Brahms' First, played and then discussed by Professor Ballantine. As a matter of fact he feels much more harkening to Herbert's "Kiss Me Again," but he has heard that Brahms is considered awfully good, albelt intellectual...
...says he founded the Adelphi purely as a vehicle for Lawrence, and expected that Lawrence would come back to England to edit it. One of the most unpopular literary men in England, Murry was the original of the cruelly pilloried Editor Burlap in Aldous Leonard Huxley's Point Counter Point...