Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...specific purpose within a single department, or within two related departments of the University. The greatest individual needs of any University, general salaries for the academic staff, maintenance funds for the physical plant, and new scholarship grants for the undergraduate body, were all relegated far to the background while research and new building were granted great subsidies. Less than one-fifth of the total amount is to be devoted to needs of units as large as the College or Medical School, less than one-fifth will go toward raising the level of salaries, maintenance and scholarships generally, while four-fifths...
...work and reap the credit for settling the steel, coal and railroad strikes the President called in professorial White House Adviser John Steelman, let his Labor Secretary languish in the background...
When a character begins to slow the plot, Author Jennings shoots him or gives him a fatal tumble from the to'gallants. Wandering around in the background-as though to remind the reader that life in those days was more than just tosspots and sea-chanteys-are Sammy Adams, Tommy Jefferson and old General Washington...
...week for the first time since Nazi Germany banned us for what it considered keeps. That was in the ominous month of May, 1939, when believing that world war was close at hand, decided to review the events which had led up to it under a new department called Background...
Then the Warners took a flyer in Western Electric's experimental sound-film, which most Hollywood companies had already turned down. On Aug. 6. 1926, Warner's Manhattan theater screened Don Juan (John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Myrna Loy) with a fully synchronized musical background. On the same bill were eight sound shorts. Historians agree that the bell tolled that evening for silent pictures...