Word: temperedness
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Just how sturdy a foundation the Constitution's framers intended to lay for the Federal Government is a question which has been puzzling Supreme Court Justices for 146 years. Air-tight was the wall of secrecy with which the Constitutional Convention delegates surrounded their deliberations. In Philadelphia one summer...
Lotta Van Buren's capable players include a medieval-looking brother and sister, but otherwise the group lacks the main characteristic of old instrumentalists -family solidarity. Bearded, bad-tempered, 77-year-old Arnold Dolmetsch of England, a famed researcher and maker of fine instruments, plays, somewhat badly, in ensemble...
This sweeping debarment of Germans was purely hypothetical last week but nonetheless real. It sprang from a ruling by the hot-tempered little Mayor that, because the Nazi State, in his opinion, discriminates against certain U. S. citizens, mostly Jews, in Germany, therefore New York's municipal government will...
FELICIANA - Stark Young - Scribner ($2.50). For cool summer fiction, few readers turn to the snarling, high-pressure, melodramatic novels of the new South. But the South that Stark Young has described in River House, So Red the Rose and other volumes is one of the coolest and sweetest tempered areas...
Tempered glass is made from ordinary plate glass, which is first heated close to the melting point in an electric furnace, then abruptly chilled by blasts of air. The surface, cooling and contracting faster than the inside, becomes a stretched, flexible skin and the inside retains some elasticity because of...