Word: consisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chord" piano whose keys are numbered (for the melody) as well as aligned with lights above the keyboard (for the chords). Special scores, without musical notation, consist merely of numbers and colored dots; the player presses the keys in accordance with the dots and numbers, and the result is music, at least theoretically. Anybody, the company claims, can play at once after a single reading of the instruction book. Price...
...discovery. The Belingwe site itself is hedged in by three barbed-wire fences, one around the other, guarded by 18 policemen and two watchdogs and illuminated at night by two searchlights. A concrete blockhouse combining a processing plant and storage vaults will soon be built. The diggings themselves consist of a hole scarcely 2 ft. deep, and 3 ft. by 12 ft. wide. The work is done entirely by hand, since emeralds-unlike diamonds, which can be put through a crusher without harm-split easily...
...what is health? Author O'Connor finds it readymade for him to put on in the wise words of Montaigne: "The grandeur of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise in grandeur, but in mediocrity." If O'Connor had held to this maxim as stoutly in his prose (which is often sheer gibberish) as he has in taking the "road to conformity," Public Baby would have been easier to take as a memorial to an ill-spent life...
Graduate students will take a general written examination in addition to the usual general oral examination, Beer stated. He explained that this addition would not add to a student's work load, since he will be taking fewer courses. The written test will consist of two three-hour examinations, one on political thought and institutions, the other on any of the government fields the student offers in his plan of study...
Sandwiches may be open or closed, ruled Sir William P. Hildred, I.A.T.A. director general, but they must be "cold . . . simple . . . unadorned . . . inexpensive," and consist of "a substantial and visible" chunk of bread. The association ruled out "materials normally regarded as expensive or luxurious, such as smoked salmon, oysters, caviar, lobster, game, asparagus, pate de foie gras," as well as "overgenerous or lavish helpings which affect the money value of the unit." Carriers that have been serving just such lavish sandwiches consoled themselves by reflecting that the ruling, after all, did not affect the chef's imagination. Said a spokesman...