Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...structural looseness, made a vigorous attempt to clarify their writing and restore classical formal principles. They threw out or slighted soft, luscious sound combinations and meandering formal styles which predominated in the music to which they objected. Now a gracious, less rigid type of writing seems to be coming back, perhaps because composers feel themselves on safe ground formally and not apt to fall into the excesses against which they reacted...
Eliot's courageous Elephants came through in the pinches to gain their first victory in the last game of the House football season winning from Leverett, 7 to 6, when Bunny Hunt Hamill's kick for the extra point hit the crossbar and bounced back into the playing field...
...British army life, for that is what publishers seem to crave today. Eleven book concerns in eleven different countries have just awarded a $15,000 prize for a novel on this theme by Major Henriques of His Majesty's Territorials. Now Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners must take a back seat while the doughty Major assumes his place in the forefront of contemporary letters...
Just how much will be required neither Nancy nor "Banker" yet knows. He will advance whatever sum is needed, Nancy's contributors will pay him back from their banks and pitchers, from collections at Belle Isle services...