Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Composer Walton has lived with the celebrated, long-faced Sitwell family; to Sister Edith's verses he wrote Faç;ade, his best-known, though least profound, orchestral work. Driving an ambulance, which William Walton has been doing for more than a year, kept him from hearing the world premiere of his violin concerto, written for Jascha Heifetz and played in Cleveland in December 1939. Fortnight ago, his job kept him from another first performance: his Scapino, a Comedy Overture, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony as part of its 50th-anniversary celebration...
...July she will be ready to make her trial runs, then join the Fleet. Close behind will be her sister ship, the Washington, almost completed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and by next year the South Dakota.* And when the North Carolina goes into service, she will have profound effects on U.S. naval power and strategy...
Next Osservatore published a homily by militant, anti-Nazi Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich, which assured German Catholics that only the Pope's desire to appear neutral had restrained him from more vigorous expression of his "profound unhappiness" over the situation in Germany. Simultaneously the Vatican let it be known that the Pope had lately made several spirited protests through his Berlin Nuncio over Germany's renewal of Catholic persecution...
...Hermann Joseph Muller, at the University of Texas, using Drosophila (fruit flies), proved that X-rays also have profound genetic effects. Piercing the nucleus of a living cell, they can destroy or rearrange the genes which determine the inherited characteristics of all new life. But, observes Dr. Failla, "All living organisms are subjected to ionizing radiations throughout their life." Chief sources are 1) potassium, a mildly radioactive element found in all cells, 2) cosmic rays, which constantly penetrate each human being...
...Most revealing of all was the history of city lighting: after centuries of blackness, a slow, fuliginous dawn of lanterns and dim cressets, then mirrored lamps and gas, then the star-destroying terrors of electricity, then the icy twitching of neon; and now, suddenly, the starlit darkness, as profound as that of Norman times...