Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largely removed from whisky and sold to paint and perfume makers. Poultry processors, confronted with smothering stockpiles of chicken feathers that would not burn, came up with a new process that breaks down the feathers into a mealy, protein-rich substance. Today, many chickens are growing fat faster on the feathers of their predecessors...
...Maury Wills of the drums") to such new guardists as Elvin Jones ("His artistry is almost beyond belief"). But perhaps his most avid fans are symphony percussionists. "He's the world's greatest living natural jazz drummer," says the Boston Symphony's Howard Thompson. "He plays faster with one hand than most of us do with two. He is rhythmically original. He has no cliches...
...cluttered with graphs, tapes and electronic equipment, H. Leslie Cramer seems more the mad scientist than the Ed School Ph.D. candidate. It is here that Cramer perfected a process to compress speech by deleting small word segments. Previous experimenters had attempted to speed speech by retaping it at a faster rate -- producing only unintelligible Donald Duck gabblings. But Cramer's process enables the listener to hear and comprehend up to 1000 words per minute...
...would not indicate this. The exam still does not include a listening-comprehension or speaking section. It tests only the basic vocabulary and rules of grammar, the kind of knowledge which, for Harvard's presently required 560, can be picked up in a year or two and forgotten even faster...
...concert ranged from Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture to the same composer's Wind Octet, Opus 103. Conductor Daniel Hathaway kept the orchestra precisely together throughout Coriolanus, but many of the opportunities for playing back and forth between parts were muffed. He might have had better luck at a faster tempo. However, the orchestra's total sound was impressively rich, exceeding what I would have expected from a comparatively small group...