Word: vein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million pipeline from New Mexico's San Juan gas field to West Coast markets (TIME, Dec. 27). Workmen laying pipe through uranium-rich eastern Utah-western Colorado plateau area will be equipped with Geiger counters so that Pacific Northwest will not risk bypassing any promising ore vein...
More than half of the performing groups are college workshops, high schools and conservatories. Knowing that he will probably get his hearing in such a setting, and not at the conservative, perennially strapped Metropolitan, the U.S. opera composer writes in a certain vein. His typical product is a lightweight one-acter with few characters (although it may have a chorus, since singers are plentiful on campuses) and a small orchestra. Its plot is likely to be a fantasy with more moral than melodrama; one act is too short, and young artists are not best suited for grand passion. Its music...
...mimeographed editorial also stated that psychological examinations were usually "so arranged that unless the majority of choices are in the 'pietistic' vein, it is deemed that the man's aptitude lies in another field...
...were the only record outlets for such blues singers as the late Bessie Smith. Ma Rainey, et al. After the war, the offensive tag was changed to "rhythm and blues," but the contents remained the same, some of it root-primitive, most of it strongly rhythmical in the jazz vein...
...Another vein of patronage runs through the contractors' performance bonds (guaranteeing satisfactory work on public projects). To be sure that the state has recourse in its own courts, the bonding company must have an agent who lives in Indiana. Most knowing contractors will ask the Toll Road Commission for advice on selecting the agent. Says Director Wedeking with Indiana frankness "If they ask our advice, we give it-and if somebody has been running around the state condemning the governor, we forget he's in business." One big commission went to Linn Kidd, an insurance...