Word: ro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Keene; lf, Giles, Slingerland; rf, Harbison; lh, Mallory; ch, Slingerland, Clarke; rh, Butcher, Allen; lo, Berman; li, Drake, Murphy; cf, Calhoun, Sawhill; ri, Gifford, Dixon; ro, Apthorp, Murphy, Kempner
...Americans excluded from the San Francisco military area as dangerous to security-the first such action against white citizens. The wonder was that it was not done earlier: everybody heard about the goings on in the North Beach Italian colony. Fascists there used to say RoBerTo as a greeting-Ro for Rome, Ber for Berlin, To for Tokyo. Italy sent teachers, books and medals for the Italian schools. Mussolini won a popularity contest hands down over Franklin Roosevelt...
...their bows, introduce a tune that might have come from a puppet show. This tiny drumming, at first almost inaudible, mounts and swells, is repeated twelve times in a continuous twelve-minute crescendo. The theme is not developed but simply grows in volume like Ravel's Boléro; it is succeeded by a slow melodic passage that suggests a chant for the war's dead...
...that ro more steel strip is needed to make automobile bodies and fenders, it will be used to ease the bottleneck on steel plate for shipbuilding. Strip steel can be rolled as thick as ¼ in., and two or more thicknesses can be used where extra strength is needed. With the ten wide continuous strip mills thus converted, plate production could be stepped up from 526,000 tons a month to around 830,000 tons...
...more bright idea of the Philadelphia Opera Company, a young, English-singing troupe which has been tossing off bright operatic ideas for three seasons. Besides the solo Blue Danube, Larry Adler had two en cores up his sleeve-Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Ravel's Boléro...