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Trial at Rouen is one of Composer Dello Joio's finest works, displaying his gift for vocal melody. The total effect is of opera in the Italian tradition, sturdier and more severe than the music of Menotti, but more full-bodied than the works of the extreme modernists...
...leisurely approach to journalism, it did not seem that it would fall in with the advocates of the five-day week. The five-day week is typical of the welfare state, CIO and all that. We had always assumed the nation's oldest college daily was of sturdier stuff and would be truer to the spirit of the Entrepreneurial Age in which it was founded. But reading back over old issues, it seems that News has taken its lumps on Saturdays. It was on a Saturday that the News reported that thirty people had been food-poisoned at the Temple...
...hours and today, at 57, is still flying, part of the time in jets). He also knew engineering. He was a natural choice to head the Navy's Norfolk test station in 1930. At Norfolk he developed the hydraulic arresting gear for carrier landings; he helped devise sturdier seaplane hulls, special tires to absorb landing impact, landing lights and releasing hooks...
...Pittoresques (Lamoureux Orchestra conducted by Jean Fournet; Epic). An ingratiating suite by one of the French nationalist revolution aries of the 1870s (others: Lalo, Saint-Saëns) that swings its waltz and polonaise movements as only Massenet could. Played as if it were made of sturdier stuff...
Hamilton's locust parthenogeneticists proved themselves, in addition, sturdier and longer-lived than locusts born as the result of male interference, but they produce about one-third as many offspring. This explains the long periods when the desert locusts lead scattered and peaceable lives...