Word: pedalings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite his technical proficiency, the Eliot House junior failed to produce the singing tones so essential in music of this kind. Particularly in the third movement of the "Waldstein," he did not do full justice to the poetic thematic material because of his brittle tone and inept pedaling. Knudson's big trouble is a simple case of artistic immaturity, and this is understandable. He has been playing for less than five years, and is subject to the usual difficulties of inexperienced musicians. His tendency to play the fast parts too fast, to over-pedal, and to ignore the composer...
Four workers are assigned the sole task of replacing the 600 light bulbs which burn out each day. Another four are professional clockwatchers; their job is to keep an eye on the master control panel on which 4,000 Pentagon clocks are synchronized. Carpenters pedal from job to job on bicycles. The day's waste paper (ten tons of it, not including classified material) is trucked away and sold for an average $80,000 a year. In an outlying building, the sewage is processed and tidily packed for use as fertilizer on the Pentagon's surrounding lawns...
...doubt be of interest to Dr. Skinner if no one else. The style is shoddy, and the slapdash arrangements of sentences displays the typical Lampoon unfamiliarity with the basic elements of syntax. "The Cruise of the Escarole and Romaine," by Douglas B. Bunce '50 about a forty-foot pedal boat is equally badly written, but might be fairly pleasant if you owned a forty-foot pedal boat at the time. John H. Updike has flooded the issue with a number of poetic fragments varying greatly in content, but all alike in their tiresome banality. Charles C. Osborne '52 local short...
...with various sections of the people . . . and too little skill has been displayed in finding the approach to points of agreement around which joint action, however limited, can be organized." In plainer English (but still based on the translation from the Russian), Dennis was telling the boys to soft-pedal all other party activities and get behind the phony peace campaign, to step up their infiltration of factories, labor unions, church, civic and neighborhood groups...
Vehicle inspection in this state is left up to approved gas stations; station attendants drive the cars around a bit, fiddle with the lights, pump the brake pedal a few times, and pass or fail the car as they will. There are no set stations will sell a sticker to any regular customer who has the fifty cents. Some garages really check over cars. Many don't bother...