Word: sturm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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German-made Tower is technically first-rate, precisioned as a Mercedes, and German-born Actress Palmer is a suave, consummate performer. The camera ranges so fluently through her glass prison it seems a pity that the action it catches is mostly senseless Sturm und Drang...
Died. Paulina Longworth Sturm, 31, granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, much-publicized onetime Valentine Day baby of Speaker of the House (1925-31) Nicholas Longworth and T.R.'s daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth; apparently after an overdose of sleeping pills, five years after the death of her husband. Author-Artist Alexander McCormick Sturm; in Washington...
...materials employed and the developing processes to which they are subjected do not create very exciting listening. There is not much melodic variety, and when resort is made to the dramatic device of gradually rising chromatically through successive transpositions of virtually the same material, one is reminded of the "Sturm und Drang" school...
Varied Uses. This device, an obvious outgrowth of TV techniques, has been worked on by many designers. Inventors of the Lumicon are Physicist Ralph E. Sturm and Radiologist Russell H. Morgan, who did their work at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. Bendix bought their patents and hired Sturm to perfect the Lumicon and get it into production...
...Russian; that salami tactics, a term originated in salami-rich Hungary, means slicing away opposition gradually; and that absolutism (absoliutizm) in Russia ended, once and for all, with the overthrow of the Czarist regime. There are also such formidable coinages as shtur-movshtina, based on the German word Sturm, which means a last-minute production spurt in a factory to meet a quota. The volume shows that one word can have different meanings when used by Communists in Russia or in the West. According to a Hungarian female Communist, for instance, the informer (donoschik) is "the mightiest and most honorable...