Word: lating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Munoz went to work on the Puerto Ricans by holding to a middle course between the Republicanos and the Independentistas. In 1938 he established a third party the Partido Popular, and in 1940 the party won its first electoral victory in the insular senate. In these years of the late '30's and the early '40's Munoz had very carefully identified himself with the collectivist tide that had swept the mainland in the shape of the New Deal. The Republicanos who opposed the collective measures discredited themselves by being in the unenviable position of opposing a source of financial...
...intermediate rise to 250, a rise to 450 by the mid-1950s. In the 1953 recession downturn, Tabell wrote that "this is the last buying opportunity" before a market rise that would "break through the 1929 top of 386 and carry to the 500-600 level by the late 1950s." In 1957 he predicted the market, then around 500, could work down to 430 (it hit 419.79). Later he noted, "The bull market is good for another two years...
Bald Up. In Rome, lured by reports that an American movie director wanted bald actors, twelve men shaved their heads Brynner-bare, learned too late that they had fallen for a practical joke...
With the Varsity down 4 to 2 late in the third period, midfielder Charlie Devens took a pass from Dick Parks and thrust in a clean line shot for the goal. After the referee had recorded the tally with the official scorer, the Penn goalie rushed forward and claimed that no whistle had been blown to bring the ball into play before the shot...
...bringing a modern harmonic vocabulary to the forms and even the styles of the classical composers. His most distinctive characteristic--the parallel chordal progressions and the contrary motion of mirroring lines shows the same concern for pattern that characterizes baroque music. His counterpoint is at times almost indistinguishable from late baroque, especially in his formal fugues, and he avoids the unusual intervals of contemporary music in favor of more traditional linear movement...