Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest estimates the '48 edition of the College's yearly venture into book-printing will break all previous records for volume. More than 400 pages are dummies in the book, which is planned to cover completely the activities of both classes which will go into its pages...
Pankey, aggressive like the flu virus, and Skinner, inexperienced but good when he is on, have been like adrenalin to the rangy quintet. Slow hoofed Gabler has set fire to fast-break plays by his quick deceptive passing...
...difficulty of getting year-end figures and of converting commodity exports to metric tons, etc. held Chapin up until 24 hours before his deadline. His department worked practically around the clock illustrating the significant phases of the story which could best be told with charts. Thanks to a break in the wintry weather, copies for the engravers arrived at TIME'S three printing plants on schedule...
...Navy after World War I, at 26, did he decide to compose instead. The saxophone paid his way" through Harvard's music school, too. Now the head of Harvard's music department, he insists that his students know the rules before they break them. He has the reputation of being averse to melody, and is a little sensitive about it. Once someone praised a rare tuneful passage in one of his string quartets. Said Piston, who doesn't consider himself exactly tuneless: "That's what I call, 'Don't throw...
There were only a few examples of the kind of industrial statesmanship that was needed to break the chain. Gambling that business would continue good, young Henry Ford II and International Harvester's Fowler McCormick both tried to help by reducing their prices. Both were forced to put their prices up again. It was not till year's end that another potent hand was laid on the chain. General Electric's Charles Edward Wilson announced that G.E. was cutting prices from 3 to 10% on about half its consumer products, an estimated saving...