Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...workers of the Canadian Baptist Mission have spread good works across the windswept barrens of the Bolivian altiplano. The mission has built schools and hospitals for the poverty-haunted tin miners to whom it ministers, given out free medicines, taught converts to speak
Nobody knows how penicillin causes this reaction, nor why it is seldom, if ever, observed when the drug is given in the form of injections...
...symphony' can only be broadly intended." There was little pure instrumental writing: the "symphony" was more a song cycle of 14 poems, from Spenser and Milton to W. H. Auden, to be sung by soloists and choruses, in various combinations and with a full orchestra. Britten had given the strings comparatively little to do; most of the burden fell on blaring brasses, on rustic horns and bucolic woodwinds. It was rich with unusual effects: while Soprano Frances Yéend sang John Clare's The Driving Boy, the chorus whistled an accompaniment. Even though Britten had barely fussed...
Beset by choking labor costs, the critical prestige of imported films, the competition of radio and the threat of TV, and public apathy toward many of its tried & true stars, Hollywood has given more than passing thought to art and even culture during the past few years. Actually, some gains have been made in the direction of adult screen fare (Boomerang!, Treasure, of Sierra Madre, The Big Clock, The Snake Pit, Sitting Pretty...
Twin Motors. In selling its product to Italians-and thus providing a refreshing example of how to do business abroad- Coca-Cola has given U.S. methods a Mediterranean twist. Billboards plug "la sosta piacevole" (freely: The Pause That Refreshes), a fleet of 200 yellow trucks pound along ancient Roman routes from the bottling centers, and deliverymen dressed in uniforms emblazoned with Coca-Cola's red patch trundle boxes into caffe bars and wineshops. In Venice, two motor launches (see cut) chug along the Grand Canal on delivery routes...