Word: steadier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metropolitan's season without conflicting with the commitments of Met singers to other opera companies, especially the San Francisco Opera and the European spring festivals. Though there is much to be said for the extension of a Metropolitan season, (It would offer more performances to opera lovers and steadier employment to performers.) the appearance of six operas in one week presents enormous problems...
...first doubles match, Hoehn and Picket broke Bowditch's service twice to take the first set. But Bowditch's and Weld grew steadier and swept the second set easily. With the score 4-4 in the deciding set, the Crimson pair broke Hoehn for the fourth time in a row (this time at love) and held Weld's service in the next game for the match...
...petroleum consumption is rising 20% a year, the Chicago spur holds high promise of reversing the present pattern of costly refining in congested market areas. By becoming an independent common carrier, Texas Eastern can ship the lower-cost products of Gulf Coast refineries on a steadier basis than slow, crude-hauling Mississippi River barges, and at as much as 30? a barrel less...
...grade the demands of the jobs available, try to fit workers to jobs. Labor unions and industry groups are backing the effort. Some employers shy away because of compensation problems, but the problems have no medical basis: heart cases are more safety-conscious than other workers, likely to be steadier and more reliable. Properly job-graded, they produce as much as their healthier fellows-sometimes more...
Game of Skittles. Instead of outstripping his time like Rembrandt, or capturing it like De Hooch, Jan Vermeer distilled it. Vermeer's pictures are even cooler, steadier and more meticulous than the customers called for. As Curator Theodore Rousseau remarks in the exhibition catalogue, almost everything Vermeer painted has a "quality of classical repose and silence. It remains one of the inexplicable puzzles in the history of taste that [Vermeer's pictures] have been confused with works by other artists, and that the identity of this painter, who to us seems different from all others, should have been...