Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Preacher counsels: Be not over muck wicked . . . why shouldst thou die before thy time? Question: Is this not an un-Christian reason for abjuring wickedness...
...ranked among the greatest conductor. Arturo Toscanini, (La Scala, Milan) unrivaled in ability to make an orchestra "sound"; Willem Mengelberg, (N. Y. Philharmonic) famed for the passionate warmth of his music; Paul Felix Weingartner, (Vienna) who loves the "classica"; Karl Muck, (Hamburg) noted for his tone coloring; Frederick Stock, who has made the Chicago Orchestra one of the three best in the world; Leopold Stokowski, (Philadelphia Symphony) the "virtuoso" among conductors: these men are widely considered to outrank...
...death struggle it twisted its head around and finally fell with the head partly under its own body. After the body tissues had decayed, the bones fell apart and settled irregularly in the swamp muck, so that the several parts of the skeleton are not now in their proper relation to each other. This explains the peculiar relation of tusks and vertebrae which led at first to the idea that there were two large animals in the same deposit...
...epoch, an epoch of geological history which reached its climax between 25,000 and 50,000 years ago. This particular mastodon wandered around in Licking country after the ice had melted far to the northward from this place, as indicated by the fact that the remains are in swamp muck on top of glacial drift. It therefore lived between 5,000 and 30,000 years...
...Karl Muck, pre-War conductor of the Boston Symphony, similarly refused (in 1918) to conduct "The Star Spangled Banner." Ousted, he now conducts for the Berlin State Opera, is considered the greatest living interpreter of Wagnerian scores...