Word: float
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sums up in its short pages all the serenity and breadth of sixteenth-century classicism. With a bare economy of notes, it builds up by means of polyphonic architecture to a climax of tremendous beauty, and with the final text "in pace," the souls of the righteous seem to float off into space and come eternally to rest in Abraham's bosom. The Lamentations of Jeremiah, an entirely different sort of thing, takes as its subject the Biblical account of the fall of Jerusalem, and achieves its effect of sustained grief by a certain pitched, calculated monotony. Now and then...
Still, the 12,000 New Yorkers who turned out to greet Torger Tokle last week had a hunch that he would make quite a yump. Lined up around the course like a gigantic keyhole, they watched his familiar blue-clad figure flick down the "inrun" at 50 m.p.h., float past the judges' tower, and glide, arms whirling, into their midst in a perfect landing. His first jump measured 167 ft. In the gathering dusk he took off for his second. This lime he landed on one ski, nearly fell. When the span was measured, a mighty roar went...
...soon learned to swoop below the gun level, bombed the deep-gorge bridges with relative impunity. Later the guns were lowered. Last week it was said that along the Road supply trucks were jammed up by the hundreds-fine bombing targets -waiting for flimsy wooden ferries often unable to float a single truckload...
...Ferrets in the cage got flu after a couple of blasts of the atomizer. Further work with high-speed cameras and other equipment indicated that droplets are expelled from the mouth of a sneezer at the rate of 100 miles per hour; and that flu microbes in the droplets float in the air, well and happy, for as long as half an hour...
...over any navigable stream "is as broad as the needs of commerce"-a definition which broadened the commerce clause of the Constitution almost immeasurably. Justices Owen Roberts and James C. McReynolds dissented vigorously, holding that ". . . then every creek in every State of the Union which has enough water ... to float a boat drawing two feet of water may be pronounced navigable. . . . Congress can create navigability by determining to improve a non-navigable stream...