Word: sound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austria because they wished to avert her collapse, and in the last few years the economic favors Italy showered upon Austria-before Mussolini finally threw Schuschnigg overboard and teamed up with Hitler-all these factors have made Austria not only economically far better off than Germany but in reasonably "sound" condition from an orthodox economic viewpoint...
...effort to turn honest document into honest-to-God drama, Playwright Albright introduces a hobbling version of the modern-minded young medico balked by his old-fogy superior, lugs in the love of two staff doctors for the same nurse. These concessions to plot bore like termites through the sound timber of the play's background, leave it rather hollow...
...Nathaniel Spear Jr. is a short, dark, slick-haired Yaleman of 41, a connoisseur of tapestries and an executive head of a group of furniture stores in New York and Pittsburgh. If Mr. Spear wanted to, he could produce one of the most remarkable jingle-jangles of sound ever heard: he could set all his 885 bells to ringing simultaneously. During years of travel Mr. Spear has collected bells from big to tiny, many of them old and odd, most of them ringable-the largest collection in the world. Last week proud Mr. Spear moved them all into his 34th...
...Rimsky-Korsakov (both previously considered horrible examples of bourgeois sentimentality), got themselves a new approved list of less modernistic composers. First to shine among the new group was young Ivan Dzerzhinsky, whose melodious, folk-song-inspired opera And Quiet Flows the Don was contrasted favorably with that "muddle of sound, raucous cacophony and lascivious naturalism," Lady Macbeth. Most talented of the new group was shy, sandy-haired, 24-year-old Tykon Krennikov, whose deep, contemplative First Symphony was hailed by critics at its Manhattan première last year as one of the finest contemporary works of its kind. Also...
...years later, to the amazement of its 300 inhabitants, Gilbert Gable appeared at Port Orford, Ore., formed six companies to promote it as the only natural deep-water harbor on the rugged coast between Puget Sound and the Golden Gate. Fifty-four years before, Congress had appropriated $150,000 to develop Port Orford as a harbor of refuge, but nothing was done. Gilbert Gable proceeded to spend $750,000 doing it, most of the money going for a huge breakwater dock, an administration building, a new lumber mill...