Word: thunderings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was much eloquent plainness, sincerity and humility in the speech. He did not thunder and roar; he heaped no scorn. When he criticized, he showed moderation. "I have indicated my opposition ... to the antilabor bills pending in Congress," was the way he put it. When he described how General Motors walked out on his fact-finding board, he said only: "You have seen how General Motors has refused to cooperate...
Rossini: Overtures (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Italy's great kettledrum-banging composer is heard with appropriate thunder on unbreakable plastic records, which catch the crescendos without the mushiness of ordinary records. Best is Toscanini's job on La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie). Also in Victor's second plastic album are the overtures to The Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola (Cinderella) and Il Signor Bruschino. Performance : excellent...
When Swedish Scientist Berzelius in 1828 named his newly discovered element thorium-after Thor, god of thunder-the choice was perhaps more portentous than Berzelius guessed. Last week in Ottawa, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King told the House of Commons that Canada's huge atomic-energy project at Chalk River, Ont. is exploring the use of thorium as a source of atomic energy. This was the first public hint of large-scale atomic experiments with elements other than uranium...
...just after the beginning of the last great depression, and the national debt now stood at $26.2 billion. But when the Taft amendment was put before the Senate, "Dear Alben" Barkley spoke only a few mild-mannered words of protest. Then Georgia's economy-minded George rose to thunder...
Fellow-townsmen took sides. Little Shelby accused bigger David City (pop. 2,272) of stealing Duren's thunder with the Nichols show. The artists themselves took up prepared positions behind cornstalks, and blazed away. Nichols: "I shall never be guilty of painting in the style or viewpoint of Terence Duren. Never! Never!" Duren: "It is easy to recognize that Mr. Nichols cannot draw people . . . save at the safe distance at which he conceals all lack of knowledge of anatomical detail. I concur heartily: Mr. Nichols will never draw or paint like I do. Never...