Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army displayed last week a new combat radio that will let G.I.s talk through their helmets. Using transistors instead of vacuum tubes, the radio is small enough to be built to fit into a soldier's helmet. It was developed by the Signal Corps, is designed with a normally short range so that squad members can exchange information without fear of eavesdropping by the enemy. But with a "man-from-Mars" antenna attached on top of the helmet, soldiers can talk to, and receive orders from, command posts more than a mile away...
...includes 40 hymns, responses, prayers, glorias and amens, all composed by 41-year-old Composer-Pianist Vincent Persichetti. to fit verses by more than a dozen poets, including famed versifier Anon. A teacher at Manhattan's Juilliard...
Most of the audience seemed amused at the frequent lute retuning forced on Heartz in this group of works. But this problem has always plagued lutanists. A Frenchman once remarked, "I have more trouble keeping my lute fit for playing than maintaining my whole stable of horses...
...inhabitants (now that Lord Patrickstown, the last of the Protestant gentry, is a convert) sleeping peacefully under the benign but totalitarian rule of Roman Catholic Canon Ignatius Peart. The canon's only worries are the prevalence of love in the hayricks and the difficulty of raising funds to fit his parish house with an upstairs bathroom (which the local water pressure will not reach...
...called literary life, never read the novels of others, and probably did not think of himself as a novelist. But he knew all the tricks of the trade, and in his hands the historical was surefire. His plots are as tight and well woven as good wicker. The costumes fit, love and virtue always triumph, and the swordplay is the most expert, the flashiest since The Three Musketeers...