Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undoubtedly aware, I paid some $60 for the subscription six or seven years ago. . . . Despite the limited supply, I realize that the demand, or lack of it, is the determining factor in this type of transaction and I will entertain any reasonable offer for my holding...
...protest and show no sign of pain," reported the doctors. When touched with a pin they can feel the difference between the point and the head. And they can distinguish slight changes in temperature. The doctors concluded that the children "do not have analgesia or loss of any type of sensibility. They are merely indifferent to pain...
Among the big figures of the modernist musical movement, many, including Stravinsky, Schönberg, and Prokofieff, are today writing a much milder and more melodious type of music than they were in modernism's heyday. In a current article in Musical America Atonalist Ernest Krenek sighed for the good old days of musical revolution. Wailed Composer Krenek: "Moderns are saying atonality is passe. Most contemporary music is reactionary...
After the accident, Washburn and Borrows dived repeatedly in unsuccessful attempts to release the drowning women from the cabin. Washburn said that he was not used to the new type of pontoons on the plane, and that he landed too flat...
...boon to the U. S. farmer. Ordinary fences are expensive, require several strands of wire, wear out quickly. If equipped with barbs, as most of them are, they occasionally injure animals severely. Electric fences can be put up at about a third the cost of the old-type fence and the operating expense is negligible-usually not more than 18? a month. The better fences give short intermittent shocks, so that animals will not "freeze" to the wire, as they might if the current were strong & steady. Once shocked, most animals will stay away from the wire...