Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outstanding matches of the day were those in which Captain Mel Heath lost to Doyle, the Holy Cross ace, and Gillette edged Hartigan, both matches going to the eighteenth hole before they were decided...
Author Mumford denies that the Machine Age began with the harnessing of steam, points out that "the modern machine age cannot be understood except in terms of a very long and diverse preparation. The notion that a handful of British inventors suddenly made the wheels hum in the eighteenth century is too crude even to dish up as a fairy tale to children." The real machine age, which he says has been with us 1,000 years, Mumford divides into three overlapping, interpenetrating phases: eotechnic, paleotechnic, neotechnic...
While by knowledge and actual practice he is well qualified to expound ultra-modern harmony, Professor Piston confines most of his discussion to what he calls "the common practice" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. "The technical study of the diversified and apparently unrelated idioms of the twentieth century composers is most logically approached through a clear conception of what harmonic practice has been throughout the preceding two hundred years." The student is led to a more enlightened attitude toward the "rules" by such wise statements as the following: "the so-called rules of harmony represent what is done...
...those who enjoy romantic lapses into the eighteenth century with elusive visions of elegant soirees with flickering tapers and the sparkling tones of the clavichord, the recording of Hadyn's "Concerto en Fa pour clavecin et orchestre" should be an especial delight. A small orchestra accompanies Mme. Roesgen-Champion in such a manner that the clavecin and the timbres of the woodwinds and strings blend together unusually well. There is no profundity in this bit of Haydn; even the andante is a very short and simple tune. "His Master's Voice" has also released a recording of Bach's Double...
...grand juries will be asked to decide. If the presumption of doubt is raised because what have been believed to be lawful deductions are taken by the taxpayer, then the time may come when income tax cases will fill up the federal court dockets just as the eighteenth amendment did in years gone by, but perhaps with an even lower percentage of convictions due to the difficulty of juries in understanding technical tax questions...