Word: highest
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Ever since Captain James Cook circumnavigated the Antarctic in 1772 explorers have struggled on foot, by dog sled and by plane across this highest, windiest, iciest, most desolate of the seven continents. Against hardships which conquered the weakest and the unluckiest they won fame for themselves, large chunks of the frozen desert for their flags. Last week Chile found an easier way to share in the Antarctic Circle pie, cut itself a large slice by Government decree...
Keeping his 1,200 artists, animators, sound engineers and helpers mum, Walt Disney started work, soon got the machinery of his new $3,000,000 Burbank, Calif, studio rolling on Fantasia. Deciding to go the whole artistic hog, they picked the highest of high-brow classical music. To do right by this music, the old mouse opera comedy was not enough. The Disney studio went high-brow wholesale, and Disney technicians racked their brains for stuff that would startle and awe rather than tickle the audience...
...mentioned-were less fortunate in that respect. As a matter of fact, I think storekeepers do a lot of constructive and educational work. Words like "insurance peddlers" are strange to my vocabulary. I believe lawyers, insurance brokers and advertising men represent honorable professions, and I hold them in the highest respect...
Because the jellylike body tissues tremble for a brief instant after every "blow" from the heart, after-vibrations warp part of the record. Hence Dr. Starr believes that his machine will never attain "highest precision." Nevertheless it is good enough to: 1) detect early, hitherto invisible cases of heart disease; 2) show the relation between high blood pressure and heart function; 3) differentiate between various types of heart disease...
...work of art solely on its structural perfection would be like the eighteenth-century deist who tried to found religion on the mathematical, well-oiled precision of the universe. Depth and breadth of emotion are the stuff from which any art and any religion are made. In the highest art, intellectual discipline and logic must support this emotion, must cast it into permanent mold, but in any event, the emotion must be there; intellect by itself is barren...