Word: floated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jump on skis is not merely a leap into space. It might also be called flying without a motor, where the jumper understands completely how to utilize the air resistance so as to float, so to speak, on the "press" of the air . . . The sensation lasts only a few seconds, but it feels like an eternity...
...Sandpoint used slot money for a new sewage project. Kellogg spent $40,000 of slot funds for flood control. On the private side, Coeur d'Alene's Athletic Round Table built $100,000 clubrooms, donated thousands to the Boy Scouts, and a few weeks ago built the float which Idaho entered in President Eisenhower's inaugural parade...
...Robertson to his 1929 classmates bears out the old adage that the radical fringe hollers the loudest. Even though much of its publicity can be laid to the Boston Post, this area's own Chicago Tribune, the letter should not be shrugged off without comment. For its ideas float around all too frequently these days...
Working in adjoining offices seven days a week, 14 hours a day, Vance and Hoffman streamlined production, sales and distribution, ruthlessly cut costs. By 1935 they managed to float a $6,500,000 new stock and bond issue, unloaded White Motor Co. and pulled Studebaker out of receivership-the only time in history that a U.S. automaker has done so. Hoffman was made president, Vance chairman...
Mozart: Requiem (Robert Shaw Chorale conducted by Robert Shaw; RCA Victor Orchestra; Victor). The best recording to date, but for some reason one of the world's most beautiful scores continues to defy recording techniques: too often the chorus overpowers the orchestra when it should float over it, clouds the counterpoint when it should limn...