Word: longs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anniversary night last week, friends, students and long-remembering fans got to hear more than a remembrance of a great voice. Although he puffed a bit through his program of Lully, Berlioz, Debussy and Bizet, Basso Rothier proved he still had a voice as golden in its middle range as an old $20 piece and as round and sound at the bottom as a mahogany log. And when he finished up with Schumann's The Two Grenadiers he also proved he could still bring down a house...
Commander Carl I. Aslakson of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey recently noted that a long series of land measurements made by shoran (a kind of radar) had gone wrong. Each measurement went wrong by the same small percentage. The measurers checked their instruments, checked their procedures. Everything was shipshape. The only thing left to account for the errors was the speed of light itself. With a guilty feeling and bated breaths, they shaded the sacred figure a tiny bit and made the measurements again. Everything came out exactly right...
...first time in a long siege, the fabulous invalid had a choice: to take its medicine, however bitter the taste, or to go on flirting with death...
...Bible still holds its long-undisputed place at the top of the bestseller list, but to a vast proportion of its modern buyers, it remains a closed book. Texas newspaper Publisher Houston Harte (the San Angelo evening Standard and Standard-Times) often wondered why, especially considering that the Bible is full of dramatic stories and fascinating characters. When Presbyterian Harte asked his friends & neighbors, they agreed that biblical characters are awe-inspiring, all right, but that somehow they are just not like people in real life. Bible-Lover Harte began to think about how to make them more...
Whether the liberties Viani took with the female body were modern Italy's greatest sculpture or not, last week's award satisfied everybody of one new wonderful fact: in Italian sculpture, after long years of a dictator's regimentation, anything goes once again...