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Word: tangents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aggressive attack executed in a tone which by itself is something of a phenomenon. These two elements, combined with musical ideas that no other trombonist over thought of, make his solos actually rise above everything else that happens to be playing. I could go off on a wonderfully inarticulate tangent trying to describe the way Jack plays, so all I'll say is that when you hear it, you'll know that Jack's the boy, because without him his band wouldn't be the same, since it would be lacking in the one driving spirit which gives any band...

Author: By Charles MILLER ., | Title: SWING | 3/7/1941 | See Source »

...justify it to the world and to himself. Thanks to the planter's own angry guilt over wenching, the Southern white woman became the object of "downright gyneolatry." In Georgia in the 1830's this toast was proposed: "Woman!!! The centre and circumference, diameter and periphery, sine tangent and secant of all our affections!" Meanwhile an exacerbated sense of honor was turned in fury against all forms of criticism. Naturally many a newspaper editor was shot. Says Cash: "The South was en route to the savage ideal: to that ideal whereunder dissent and variety are completely suppressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psychoanalysis of a Nation | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

Charles F. Brooks, director of the Meteorological Observatory, reported that from the University station on Blue Hill the observable phenomena included parhelic, a parhelic circle, a parhelion of 120 degrees, a circumzenithal are, an upper tangent are, and also the familiar 22 degree halo about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Treated to Display of Rare Sunlight Phenomena | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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