Word: interpreted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the bridge, operate searchlights, use the anemometer, tide and current tables and use and correct sailing charts and sailing directions. Take care of the chronometer, identify stars, take sun and star sights and determine ship's position. Use dead reckoning radio bearings and soundings as navigational aids, and interpret weather signals. Send and receive international Code by blinker, searchlight and semaphore, and identify all Navy signal flags and pennants. Know the international and local inland rules of the road, and the rules governing the display of the American and other flags...
...consistently and systematically in one style. Too much knowledge of other men's music often results in the musical hash you find occasionally in Mahler, who anticipated T. S. Eliot's patchwork technique in this respect. A conductor, however, has to "get inside" a Bach or Debussy, and to interpret a number of radically different styles in the spirit in which they were used. Stokowski, always the actor, can't restrain himself from making self-revealing comments in program notes and short speeches. Last winter he announced a Bach work about to be played as "an inspired inspiration." Toscanini wisely...
...German-paid "author and journalist," he had a legal peddler's license, drew down more than $100,000 for lauding Adolf Hitler and excoriating the British. Still confident that there was no "infallible safeguard" against propaganda, he said: "I have always regarded it almost a consecration to interpret the land of my fathers to the land of my children...
Guided by graduate students of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, members will interpret the pros and cons of post-war issues across the conference table. The decisions of these seminars are to be presented at bi-weekly symposiums in which three or four of the committee will discuss phases of a specific problem. These forums, and a magazine to be planned as soon as organization has been effected, will present the Council's findings and opinions to the public...
...films (four inches by five) are used to take photographs of an X-ray image on a fluoroscopic screen. (A fluoroscope shows up internal organs but does not take permanent pictures.) With a special camera, a technician can take one picture a minute, for about 25?. Although difficult to interpret, the films are only a trifle less accurate than large plates. They have been used on thousands of people in several large cities, notably Detroit and Chicago...