Word: dents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that nearly all substances change profoundly if squeezed hard enough. Water existed as ice in Bridgman's apparatus, even when its temperature was above the normal boiling point. Soft and slippery graphite (under 1,500,000 pounds of pressure per square inch) gets hard enough to make a dent in steel...
...despite the obvious virtues of understanding gained by using English words, no one interested in music will ever be reconciled to hearing the quick rhymes and smooth-flowing Italian diction of librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte exchanged for the ponderous, ungainly English of even so able translator as Edward Dent...
Literary critics can help boom a book into the best-seller lists. Drama critics can make or break a Broadway play. But for all the dent they make on moviegoers, film critics might as well stop frittering away their time...
...second half in halting the Mastadon offensive, as Eliot mixed up passes and running plays in an effort to score. With Bob Critchton on the aerial receiving end, and Dave McGiffert and Tener Eckle-berry slicing off some sizeable gains through the line, the Elephants threatened but failed to dent the Deacon goal line...
...News Chronicle's Alan Dent wrote: "The emotion this great piece of acting evoked in this normally unenthusiastic breast of mine was re-echoed a thousandfold by the audience's yell of acclamation at the end." W. A. Darlington of the Daily Telegraph thought: "He was never less than first rate, and again and again he touched magnificent." Other critics merely repeated this theme...