Word: shelfful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this time in the form of nine Carnegie Hall recitals in seven weeks. Those few pianists half his age with the stamina for such a task would likely spend months in agonizing preparation for the ordeal; Rubinstein walked away from the whole problem, instead took down from a dusty shelf the three Brahms Piano Quartets that he had not played publicly or privately for over a decade, and got them back into his fingers and heart for the recording sessions. Why this, rather than brushing up on the concert programs? "It was like coming back to old friends," he explained...
Stanford's 1959 Nobel Laureate Arthur Kornberg and Biochemist Mehran Goulian began their historic synthesis with four off-the-shelf inert chemical compounds called nucleotides-the basic building block of the DNA molecule, which controls the hereditary characteristics of every living thing. To these they added one enzyme, DNA polymerase, that is known to promote the assembly of nucleotides into the typical helix-shaped strand that characterizes the DNA molecule, and another enzyme that closes the strand into a ring...
...wouldn't even do it for his friend until Cross had properly identified himself. When nothing in his wallet proved his identity to the banker's satisfaction, Cross led him to a library and pulled off the shelf one of his books on the Old Testament, displaying his own picture on the jacket. That was enough for the banker: Cross was indeed qualified to authenticate Biblical material and was certainly the man sent to handle the purchase of the scrolls...
...suburbs. During the luncheon break in Harlem, Subcommittee Chairman Benjamin Rosenthal of New York City led aides and reporters to a supermarket for a personal check. Packaged goods were found to be mismarked, frozen foods were half thawed, and the manager admitted that after two days on the shelf, packaged meat was taken back to the butcher's block, repackaged, relabeled-and redated. In St. Louis, a test by the city health laboratory determined that hamburger purchased at a slum store was 26.5% fat compared with 18.5% fat in similar meat bought in a good neighborhood. Even a head...
This, of course, is not the first book to explore the camps or dig into the new subcellars that were constructed under the Lower Depths. It occupies a place on the same shelf as Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and Lydia Chukovskaya's The Deserted House, another homefront view of the purges recently published in the U.S. But since Mrs. Ginzburg's book is a work of nonfiction, an intensely...