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...Heezen and Ewing reconstructed what must have happened on that day of undersea commotion. The sea bottom near the epicenter of the quake is rather irregular with many comparatively steep slopes of loose material. The quake must have jolted this detachable stuff, starting slumps and landslides that cut the nearest cables at about the same time...
...this idea of a day carefully apportioned into near little sections each reserved for a certain type of activity is at best a feeble rationalization of the new parietal rules, and at worst an insincere one. Harvard men lead notoriously irregular lives, and it is not for the Dean's Office to work them into a pattern by which at a given hour all will troop off together to the Blockhouse or Lamont. Harvard men play hockey at 7:30 in the morning and squash at 10 at night. They study until 3 in the morning and they sleep until...
...second movement is the piece de resistance of the symphony. Marked Ballando (dancing), the form is that of a rondo, one of the most characteristic of the classical forms; but the material which comprises it is anything but classical. The main section, written largely in irregular meters, is a wild affair with much brilliant display by the brasses. One of the contrasting sections is a sentimental waltz tune. The movement also includes one of Mr. Piston's rare samples of folk Americana, a country fiddler's tune...
...four) are classified as "granular hexahedrites." They are made of iron and nickel, says La Paz, but the material is not homogenous and crystalline, as it would have to be if it had solidified from a liquid. Instead, the strange material from space is slapped together haphazardly in irregular gobs...
...next few years, Muriel's income was small and irregular. (She later claimed she lost about $35 on every decorating job she did.) But in a succession of shabby East Side New York apartments, generally furnished with a few gilt chairs and remnants of the splendors of 19A Edith Grove, she once again became a famous hostess. By 1929, when she published Music at Midnight, a lively memoir of her European triumphs, Muriel's parties were a focus for visiting artistic lions and earnest contributors to the little magazines. Muriel helped to keep excitement alive by outrageous remarks...