Word: countless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picked the hard way. Orchestral players are kept together, after a few rehearsals, by the conductor's beat; quartet players keep together by the kind of intuition that good bridge partners have, developed through countless hours of playing together. When Violinist Busch formed his Chamber Music Players in Switzerland in 1935, he took his own Busch String Quartet as a nucleus, held 70 rehearsals before the orchestra's debut concert. When he reassembled the group in the U.S. last May (with a few changes in personnel), he persuaded the musicians to rehearse for ten months...
Burlap is the "wrapping paper of the wholesale trade." The U.S., even in normal times, consumes more than 500,000,000 lb. of burlap a year. Bulk foods-grains, raw sugar, coffee, salt, livestock feeds-are bagged in burlap; so are cotton, wool, fertilizers, chemicals, countless industrial products. In wartime it is also needed for sandbags and camouflage fabrics. As raw jute, or as manufactured burlap, 99% of it originates in India, and 85% of that comes from around the steaming Ganges Delta in Bengal Province. In no other part of the world where acceptable jute can be grown...
This corny ditty became almost sanctified by the countless heroic circumstances under which it was sung during World War I. The words were written in 1915 by a British vaudeville actor named George Powell. He and his piano-playing brother, Felix Lloyd Powell, who wrote the music, netted $60,000 from the song...
...Vanillin, the flavor constituent of vanilla. Last year one-half of U.S. vanillin was synthesized from U.S. lignin, consumed by General Foods, Hershey, National Biscuit, countless numbers of ice-cream makers, the Army & Navy...
...churchgoer, but a profoundly religious Protestant, Rembrandt spent many an evening over his Bible, etched countless Biblical scenes, giving his tortured, tenebrous Christs and Virgins the tragic, human faces and figures of the people he found about him. Treating religion as a personal, human experience, and his bluff, crusty Amsterdam settlers as rugged individuals, Rembrandt became the greatest of Reformation painters, and the pictorial spokesman of bourgeois democracy...