Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greek gave them. But under his jumping-jack direction the staid Boston Symphony, churned into a lather of excitement, surpassed itself. Delighted Boston critics gave Mitropoulos full marks, even hinted at comparisons with the great Koussevitzky himself. When he came back a second time, Conductor Mitropoulos made almost too much of a hit. After that Maestro Mitropoulos did not guest-conduct in Boston again...
...prolongation of the line from the geographical pole to the magnetic pole does it point true north. From other points in the world the needle, pointing to magnetic north, makes an angle with true north, and that angle mariners call variation. In the Pacific Ocean the needle points as much as 30° east of the geographical pole; in parts of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans as much as 45° west...
What has plagued navigators is that variation is not only different for different localities, but that from year to year the variation varies because the magnetic pole moves. No one knows why and no one knows precisely how much. Scientists do know that since famed Astronomer Edmund Halley first made his chart of variations, A.D. 1700, the variation in England has changed by more than 37°. Seaman-scientists of the Research are not sure they will discover the reason for the annual changes. But they will determine the amount of change by comparing their readings with those taken...
...years ago Thomas Benton wrote an autobiography (An Artist in America) telling what he knew about the U. S. Few artists have seen as much. Benton looked on in awe at his father's breakfast table 40 years ago as the Great Commoner, William Jennings Bryan, engulfed one poached egg on half a baked potato at every bite. He lived in raw Chicago in 1907-08, brawled and bragged among the artists of Greenwich Village and Montparnasse, worked in a Norfolk shipyard in the War, bummed thousands of miles through the South and West with...
...ever finished by being sprayed with quick-drying lacquer, the spray gun took its place among the garage man's favorite toys. Always alert to industry, Artist Siqueiros considered it more than a toy, urged its use for murals. Neither Siqueiros himself nor other muralists have actually done much with it. But last week in Manhattan two trigger men appeared with demonstrations of what a spray...