Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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make Latin or Greek the requirement for high School graduation, because in High School a student is first introduced to the problems of study. Latin and Greek are well recognized as excellent background subjects for discipline and training in the use of available study time, coordination of mind and mouth, and also provide a setting for oral and written expression. John J. Horgan...
Although the poll will be distributed at lunch time, the ballots will not be called in until 7 o'clock, giving students a chance to read background materials in recent CRIMSONS, copies of which will be on hand in the respective libraries...
...Dusk. That was the background of the meeting of Byrnes, Molotov, Bevin and France's Couve de Murville amid the yellow chairs and croton plants in the apartment lent to the Ministers by the Waldorf's fastidious board chairman, Lucius M. Boomer...
Without much warning, the background music suddenly takes on a menacing note and Katy finds herself involved in a psychological mystery. Who is this brother of Taylor's who must never be mentioned? Like the audience, Katy has never met .the mysterious relative whose name drives Taylor into queer fits of hysterical reticence. Unlike the audience, she is consumed with curiosity and foreboding about her missing inlaw. Amid some embarrassing melodrama, it begins to look as if Taylor is a scoundrel, maybe a murderer, and-worst fate of all-the short side of a romantic triangle...
...Italian diplomats and newsmen say: take it with salt, especially his cloying, new-found love of suffering humanity, his suspiciously detailed and too melodramatic recital of fast-moving events. But whatever their worth as history, these tenuously connected yarns have the quality of horrible legends recited against the feverish background of Europe's moral decay...