Word: backgrounds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...them she has been something of a pioneer. Miss Cam was born 63 years ago in Essex County, England. "I think the most unusual thing about my childhood was that I had no formal schooling. I was one of nine children. My mother came from an Oxford background, and my father was a parson, and together they educated us all. I tried three times to get into Oxford by passing the 'locals' but couldn't. They did, however, show I had a proficiency for history so when I went to the University of London that became my primary study. After...
Records ran a close second, and girls want the semi-classics, like Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata,--"That's my favorite because it was the background music of a movie I liked," testified one young miss...
...delete embarrassing copy and to see what others were saying about him), Hannifin typed out his copy and filed it from San Salvador, where censorship applies only to stories about El Salvador. There were no deletions and Hannifin, who by that time was "about the color of the background of Chaliapin's portrait of Somoza," went to the hospital with a severe attack of jaundice, answering the editors' remaining queries from his hospital bed up to the time the Somoza story went to press...
...study of Anglo-Saxon institutions carries with it some inspiration for world citizens of today," she continued. She pointed out that the medieval historian "looking back down the vista of 1000 years, has a background against which to defeats and disappointments of the last 30 years take a juster proportion...
...angles is literary history; it places greatest emphasis on the subject's environment, considering contemporary social, economic, and political influences. The Department of History and Literature was created for this purpose. There is an extreme, however: the field of American literature is often ridiculed for over-emphasizing historical background to obscure the scarcity of works worthy of careful consideration in them selves...