Word: soared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haydn: Quartet in D Major, Op. 64 No. 5 (Budapest String Quartet; Columbia, 6 sides). This quartet, the "Lark," does not fly with quite the grace and charm of Haydn's earlier and better quartet, "The Bird" (Op. 33, No. 3). The Budapesters don't soar with their earlier ease either. Recording: fair...
More spectacular still are the "prominences": vast, arching flames of incandescent gas ejected with enormous speed (see cut). They rise at 400,000 m.p.h. and soar to hundreds of thousands of miles above the surface. Other prominences appear out of nowhere, high above the surface, and seem to fall like water from a hose. Some of the material in prominences and other solar disturbances may be blown as far as the earth, causing the electrical storms that knock radios haywire...
...Britain's Leicestershire, but the critics agreed that it had one really notable painting. Figure 8, Skegness, the picture they singled out, showed a whirl of bright-colored roller-coasters against a sea blobbed with boats. Wrote one critic: "A fine specimen of modernism by the Barrow-on-Soar artist, Thomas Warbis ... A study of it will be all the more interesting in view of the present controversy in the art world concerning a famous artist's [Sir Alfred Munnings] attack on modernism." Added the Loughborough Echo: "Mr. Warbis' [picture] will prove the subject of a good...
...they did not know who had bought the bank. Broker Johnston, who was elected a director, knew but was telling no one. However, the United Mine Workers had been talking for some time about buying a bank-and it made good financial sense. The welfare fund was likely to soar to $100 million and the union could make more money by putting it out in bank loans than by drawing interest on it as a deposit. But when newsmen asked Lewis if he was now a banker, all they got was a faraway look and a curt: "No comment...
...general, was in a slump until the war years, and American paid no dividends on common stock. Then, as 10,000,000 ex-servicemen rushed to buy their first civvies, American Woolen found itself so prosperous that in 1946 it declared a $12 common dividend, saw its stock soar from 29½ to 70¾. In 1948, it rang up the biggest sales ($197 million) in its history and earned $15.88 per share. But now, said Pendleton, American Woolen, like other weavers, was in a double squeeze that was choking off sales...