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• “The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close.”

  The Huffington Post: Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades

• “Even if we approved it roughly in thirds, with the best ideas passed this month and the other 2/3 held for more substantive deliberation and analysis, to be passed in each subsequent month.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Cutting the Stimulus

• “Fold the dough in thirds as if folding a letter, turn it 45 degrees, and again run it through the thickest setting.”

  Recipes for Oxtail Braised in Sherry & Oxtail Ravioli in Leek-Mushroom Broth

• “But the other two-thirds is attributable to non-school factors.”

  The Washington Post: Rothstein: Why teacher quality can't be only centerpiece of reform

• “Of the total Australian wine crop, about two-thirds is exported and what has happened to the currency has had a huge impact, especially on lower-priced wines," he said.”

  The Guardian: Ashes blow for Barmy Army as pound is bowled out by currency markets

• “In August, Seahawk posted a sharply wider second-quarter loss as revenue tumbled by two-thirds from a year earlier due to a lack of business in Mexico in the latest quarter.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Pride International Weighs Strategic Options

• “You mentioned the effectiveness of treatment by meds in thirds, but in recent years, electroshock therapy has become more and more accepted, as a long-term outpatient solution, to drug-resistant depression and has saved many lives, as repulsive as it sounds.”

  Stinking Thinking « Tales from the Reading Room

• “I split the recipe in thirds and added sugar to one bowl, chopped olives to the second, and pomegranate molasses to the third.”

  Ingredient: Pomegranate Molasses with Recipes for Pomegranate-Olive Jam, Pomegranate Champagne Cocktail, and Pomegranate Aperitif

• “The other two thirds is probably porno or people trying to get laid.”

  Reason #263 the Internet Sucks

• “The clarinets seemed to be sometimes be doing the difficult feat of moving in thirds neither major or minor but in-between -- probably hard as h*ll to do.”

  Manifold intake

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