Search Details

Word: marring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...same next day at Mar del Plata (a detour carefully arranged to get Ike out of tense Buenos Aires into a more easily policed area). Along the seven-mile route from the airport into the resort town, nearly a million cheering, suntanned vacationers, many wearing bathing suits, made a happy uproar and brought a mile-wide grin to Ike's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Benvindo, Eekee! | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

...plants unannounced, dresses down plant management when things are not ship shape, sometimes takes a soldering iron and a screwdriver to go to work on a problem himself. The largest single Magnavox stockholder (167,000 of 2,350,000 shares), he relaxes aboard the 62-ft. company yacht, Magna Mar, fishes for marlin off Florida. A music lover, he has little confidence in engineering graphs and charts that prove his product is perfect. When he wants to judge, he cocks his ear, decides how it sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Invasion of Britain | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

...schedule of remaining varsity contests is as follows: Feb. 5 Cornell 6 Columbia 9 Boston College 12 Yale 13 Brown 19 At Pennsylvania 20 At Princeton 26 Princeton 27 Pennsylvania Mar. 4 At Brown 5 At Yale

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cuffe's Average Tops for Quintet | 1/27/1960 | See Source »

Here is a field of unlimited opportunity for publicity-inclined students, and there are, indeed, evidences that it does not need advertising. Still, "tasting" must be encouraged as a serious profession; no frivolity should mar its beautiful self-sacrifice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TESTERS AND TASTERS | 1/27/1960 | See Source »

...aspect of the composition was guided by the forms of the series-the sixes, the quadrilaterals, the triangles . . . The listener has to get down and look up through the series, so to speak." Scored for a moderate-sized orchestra and piano (expertly played at the première by Mar-grit Weber), the piece has no continuity in the normal sense. A lean, nervous composition, it proceeds in jagged skips and jumps. Its impetus derives from its rhythms-crotchety, erratic and often as arresting as a movie played at constantly shifting speeds. "One does not find it a memorable experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Anti-Tonal Stravinsky | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

Previous | 238 | 239 | 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | 248 | 249 | 250 | 251 | 252 | 253 | 254 | 255 | 256 | 257 | 258 | Next