Word: laine
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When Yale Music Historian Leo Schrade came across the faded parchment, which had lain unnoticed for years in a dusty stack at the university's Branford College Library, he spotted, above the Latin words from Jeremiah (Lamentations 3: 13-34), the spidery hooks, loops and slashes of the ancient musical-note symbols called neumes. * The sheet resembled the earliest known neumatic documents, but was probably at least 100 years older. Yale's Latin Professor Clarence Mendell had bought the document in 1938 from London's E. P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd. Experts traced it back to Luxeuil, after...
Ticknor, who is also rugby captain, damaged the nerves in the back of his neck on Sept. 7 during tackling practice. Since then he has lain Sat. on his back to relieve the damaged nerve...
...desk is bare except for a well-thumbed dictionary, a picture of the novelist's wife and an old-fashioned gold watch with Roman numerals and a heavy lid. For five years the watch has lain open on the desk while its owner listened to its ticking and wrote steadily, using the same aging desk pen and yellow lined pads. Says Herman Wouk (pronounced woke...
...subdued French quarter, Bourguiba's cavalcade proceeded amidst the thunder of drums and the shrilling of native pipes, through festooned streets and stopped before a small, dilapidated house. The adoring crowd surged forward, bore Bourguiba up three flights of stairs to the tiny apartment where his wife has lain bedridden during the last six months of his exile in France...
Worry Wart. As the championships got underway last week in Daytona Beach's Welch Municipal Pool, the sleek-muscled star of the Walter Reed Swim Club* had more reason to collapse than to set records. All night Shelley Mann (daughter of an electrical engineer) had lain awake worrying. Even the presence of Tommy, her good-luck Teddy bear, had not lulled her to sleep. In the morning, she ground out a fast 58.9-second qualifying dash for the 100-yd. freestyle. Later, she led her qualifying heat once again as she clocked 5:31.8 in the punishing...