Word: float
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teachers, received the most appropriate of birthday presents: songs by four of his most eminent pupils in honor of his seventieth birthday. Virgil Thomson's Kyrie Eleison, with a rhythmically free main line that seemed to float between sopranos and basses, had some startling harmonies and enough consistency to make it the most memorable of the four. Some rather academic music by Allen Sapp and Randall Thompson, and Henry Leland Clarke's complicated, episodic treatment of Happy Is the Man (Proverb 3:13) at least proved how very diverse Davison's influence has been...
Since last March this ship of the Idaho desert has been "cruising" intermittently toward the North Pole.* Having no bow or stern, or water to float in, it has not moved an inch, but the long, rigorous tests of its nuclear power system have been brilliantly successful. Naval designers, tacticians and strategists are aware (some with regret) that a revolution in sea power is sweeping out of Idaho...
...result of the continuing boom on boom was that money started to run short, credit tightened, and interest rates rose. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey chose this occasion to float a new $2 billion bond issue with the highest rate (3¼%) that any U.S. bond had carried in 20 years. With this formal notification that the "easy money" policy of the Democratic Administration was ending, the money shortage worsened; three-to five-year Government security rates rose from 2.6% to 2.9%. As credit tightened throughout the economy, builders complained about the new shortage of mortgage money, retailers warned darkly...
...granted Finland credit with no strings attached; 2) paid for 10% or even 15% of Finnish exports to Russia in sterling or dollars; 3) reopened the question of Finnish territory captured by the Red army in World War II. Moscow, said Kekkonen, was preparing to let Finnish lumbermen float log rafts down the Saimaa Canal, which connects their inland lakes with the Baltic, a canal which Russia annexed in 1947. Russia's only condition, said Kekkonen, was that Helsinki should "continue to follow a foreign policy of mutual assistance and friendship between the two countries...
...trading A.M.F. stock: Transducer Corp. (radar, electronics engineering), Union Machinery Co. (baking equipment), DeWalt, Inc. (radial arm saws and homecraft power tools), Cleveland Welding Co. ("Roadmaster" bicycle, second largest seller in the U.S.) Junior Toy Corp. ("Junior" tricycle, biggest seller in the U.S.), Sterling Engineering Co. Inc. (electrical relays), Float-Lock Corp. (drill press vises), Thompson-Bremer & Co. (lock nuts and washers, electrical terminals) and Leland Electric Co. (electrical motors and equipment...