Word: tempos
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...five octaves above middle C, but he can also go up to 16,000 and even 32,000 without ill effects. A rise in the temperature of the room in which he is being tested will cause a corresponding increase in the sound pulsations of his fiddling, putting the tempo up from 16 per second at 70 degrees Fahrenheit, to 20 beats a second at 94 degrees Fareneit. Only a male cricket can make these noises, since the female has no scratcher...
...silk dress. I have nowhere to go.' And she threw it in my face. . . ." ". . . While I was busy with posters, flowers and parades ... I entirely forgot the existence of the man I love. . . ." Summing up all this Komsomolskaya Pravda recorded an evident conviction among Communist Youth that the tempo of their life blights marriage and makes proper child rearing well-nigh impossible. To this Godless Yaroslavsky made truculent retort: "It is entirely up to our Young Communists themselves! They must so organize their work and social activities that they will find time for bestowing upon each other that deep...
...time to dig an irrigation ditch from the river to their fields. Of this Director Vidor says: "I tried to develop it like a ballet. I aimed to get the effect of mounting drama through the movements of the diggers' bodies. With the use of a metronome whose tempo was kept constantly on the increase, I set my actors to work with their picks and shovels. I believe I have gotten what I wanted...
...sorts with the world just now because it is shedding its bluish-grey skin, but still "very good-natured and clean," coils G. Edgav Folk's healthy specimen, perfectly willing to show off to visitors by wrapping itself around its master's arm while its darting tongue increases its tempo...
King George likes "God Save the King" so well that royal bands now linger over it at an officially slowed tempo, but Edward of Wales is always trying to hurry them through his hymn with its lugubrious refrain...