Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five minutes after the first two, another lone bomber power-dived in over List from due west. The German batteries set up such a fierce yammering that the newcomer released only two bombs before whirling back over the North Sea. But the whole length of Sylt-the seaplane base down at Westernland, the anti-aircraft towers on the Hindenburg Damm (causeway) connecting the island umbilically with the mainland, and the seaplane base at Hörnum on the southeast tip 20 miles away-began thudding and crackling with bomb and gun explosions. For ten minutes more Herr Schmidt watched...
...Commons, defending his Government. The Germans' dashing raid on the Fleet in Scapa Flow (TIME, March 25) rankled bitterly in Members' minds. Not long after 9 p. m. Mr. Chamberlain was able to announce dramatically: "Tonight the Royal Air Force attacked and severely damaged the German air base at Hornum on the island of Sylt...
...which are transmitted first through the tiny lever bones of the middle ear-the "hammer," "anvil," and "stirrup"-then through a tissue-thin window into the inner ear. On the other side of this window is the main sound-wave receiver, a snail-like bone sunk deep in the base of the skull, with communicating nerves to the brain...
...which he placed, in vertical columns on the left side, the diatonic, chromatic and other scales, with one note for each horizontal line. Villa-Lobos got photographs of Brazil's major mountains, took tracings of their outlines. When he put a tracing on the graph, with the base of the mountain on any note that suited his fancy, he had something...
...adore it, will set down its melody expressly for you." Seizing a photograph of Manhattan's lower sky line, the composer exclaimed: "The feeling that this photo gives me is distinctly minor, though I know that the interior of the city is distinctly major. I would base this on C Minor." So. making a quick tracing of the sky line, he did. Puffing on a big 7?cigar, he sketched out the melody twice, sang it froggily, exclaimed at its Oriental character, finished the composition in an hour and 50 minutes. In its final form, harmonized for voice (wordless...