Word: amounting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...performance outside Russia of the sixth and latest symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich, at 34 the No. 1 Soviet composer. The Philadelphia Orchestra got first crack at No. 6 as it might have arranged for a ton of caviar: by negotiating with Amtorg Trading Corp., paying a fee so stiff (amount kept secret) that it had to be specially approved by the Philadelphia Orchestra directors...
...refrigeration work impressed Diesel with the amount of heat generated when gases are compressed. This is the basic principle of the Diesel engine, which has no electric ignition. In a Diesel, air is sucked into the cylinder, then highly compressed by the piston motion so that its temperature rises to around 1,000° F. Atomized fuel is then shot into the cylinder where it is ignited by the heat. The high temperature enables the Diesel to burn cheap fuel. Powdered coal and cheap oil were the first fuels that Rudolf Diesel puttered with...
...Evans, plays the pompous Malvolio with his usual moist, resonant subtlety of speech. He also adopts a Cockney accent that undoubtedly makes the labored humor of the part more amusing than it really is. Into the pronunciation of the single word '"Run?" he manages to crowd an enormous amount of haughty comedy...
...thought the amount spent on schools was about right; 19%, not enough; 14%, too much; 20% didn't know...
...daily living of average families. "Naturalism" had a notion that an account of how such a family struggles through its oatmeal, breeds another generation to do likewise, could present all human life fearlessly and whole. The result of this literary theory has been some good amateur anthropology, a titanic amount of dullness, little...