Word: unbroken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gliders. He also wrote a little work for piano called Vexations-an 80-second chordal theme of only 180 notes in 52 beats. Then, in high humor, he added to the score an instruction that Vexations was to be played by a pianist with "interior immobility"-840 times in unbroken succession...
...meaning into a single line that none of them comes through when the line is spoken, however clear it may be as written verse. There is practically no action in the play, and hardly any conversation to replace it. Instead, the play is a string of long speeches virtually unbroken by interludes of dialogue or stage business. The result is extremely static and ritualistic...
Though Manhattan's 16-week newspaper strike cost it some $5.000,000 in pre-Christmas revenues, the New York Times finished last year in the black, thus preserving a record of annual profits that stretches unbroken back to 1896. On revenues of $118 million, the Times netted $1,811.550, down from 1961 profits of $2,212,709. But because the strike continued through the end of March, the Times's 1963 bookkeeping may well be sketched in bright red. Last week the Times announced that for the first quarter of this year, during which its 735,000-circulation...
Connecting the seven units will be an unbroken passageway below street level, not subterranean as in some Harvard courtyard. Entering each residential unit from courtyard level, one would find a kitchen and common rooms...
That technique is the continuous casting process, in which molten steel is formed into semifinished slabs in one unbroken step. Originally conceived by Sir Henry Bessemer, Britain's 19th century steelmaking genius, the process was developed in Germany in the 19305, but has been seriously put to use by European steelmakers only in the past year. The Soviet Union claims to have produced nearly one million tons of steel last year by continuous casting...