Word: triad
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...home, locked the doors to the music room, pulled the blinds shut, and remained for several hours, and left as suddenly as he had come. When Mrs. Worthington sat down at her instrument she could scarcely believe her ear. The music was heavenly beyond imagination; a simple major triad sounded like a choir of angles. Within a short time Mrs. Worthington had become the toast of the musical monde. She gave weekly recitals...
...even when the two are working on the same scientific problem. How is the dean of a medical faculty to reconcile this state of affairs with the obvious need for collaboration, especially when he believes strongly, as Berry does, that "teaching, research, and care of patients constitute an indivisible triad...
...work as a whole, epitomize some of his most successful ventures. There are eight verses with tremendously varied settings: a simple hymn; a lament that borders on the sublime (and I'd like to shoot the guy that made the open fifth of the final chord into a major triad); songs of Thanks giving with the longest crescendi since Rossini stopped writing overtures; and a chorus of "Woe unto them that..." that reminds me of the brand of hell fire and damnation I thought you'd only hear when the brothers and sisters got happy in that one story wooden...
Improvement, it is said, is something there is always room for, and nowhere, it seems, is there so much room as in the kitchen-gadgetry's chief breeding ground. A triad of the latest kitchen improvements, more meaningful than most...
Will there be many more joint performances like the current triad in Carnegie Hall? "Not many," says Jascha Heifetz. "My sweating days are over...