Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although he was named for his uncle, Winthrop Aldrich, board chairman of Chase National Bank, Winthrop Rockefeller, fourth son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., last week explained why he has no middle name. His mother, Abby, an avid pacifist, did not want his initials to be "W.A.R...
After Valentine's Brook, Royal Danieli, an Irish horse, swept past Battleship, and Sir Alexander Maguire's Workman came from behind. As attendants were loading the carcass of Rock Lad upon an ambulance, Royal Danieli, Battleship and Workman thundered over the last jump. Cooleen and Delachance were fourth and fifth, Blue Shirt far behind in seventh place. Nose and nose Royal Danieli and Battleship raced toward the finish...
When the idea of absolute time is abandoned, every body moving relative to another must have its own time specification as well as length, breadth, and thickness. Thus time becomes a fourth dimension added to the three dimensions of space. The consequences of the theory, when worked out mathematically, are that absolute motion, absolute mass and absolute dimensions must also be shelved. When a body is in motion relative to an observer, he would see (if he had instruments fine enough) that its length in the direction of motion is shortened, that its mass is increased. The increased mass must...
Serge Prokofieff, famed Russian modernist composer, has a scunner against Boston. Seven years ago, when his Fourth Symphony was premièred there, supercilious Bostonians pooh-poohed it, critics even dared to suggest that it was written in too much of a hurry. Last week blond, lumbering Prokofieff, guest-conducting the Boston Symphony, evened the score. "If the public in Boston cannot understand my serious music," said irate Composer Prokofieff, "I'm going to give them simple things." One of the simple things was his Peter and the Wolf, a musical fairy tale written to teach the various sounds...
...introduced to the U. S. in 1935 (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935), had become the rage of Manhattan's intellectuals. Lady Macbeth of Mzensk was withdrawn from Soviet theatres.* Composer Shostakovich's subsequent ballet, The Limpid Stream, was also withdrawn after a panning by Moscow critics, and his Fourth Symphony was suppressed without a performance. For two years Shostakovich was in the doghouse...