Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard is convinced that the worst thing that ever happened to him was to break the scoring record in his third season in the big time. The following year, worrying about keeping it up made him flub instead. This year, not worrying, he may set a new record. Says he coolly: "It is my own record I'd break. What difference does it make...
Life Begins at 50. After four long years, Rouault quit his job to study with famed Academician Gustave Moreau. Moreau taught young Rouault all he knew about painting and did his best to break Rouault's habit of moping about in cemeteries after school. When Moreau died, his house was turned into a memorial museum and Rouault, as the favorite pupil, was appointed curator. The sinecure kept Rouault going; his art sold hardly at all until he was past...
Each time Limón puts on a recital, he has to borrow production money, pay it back from the box-office take. Says he: "We just barely break even. Everyone gets paid but me." What money he earns comes from a back-breaking teaching program: at Manhattan's Dance Players Studios, at the Katharine Dunham School, at Boston's Duncanbury School of the Arts, at Sarah Lawrence College...
...survive in the world today [the others: Orthodox Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Far Eastern]. . . . Within the last four hundred years all five have been brought into contact with each othe. . .as a result of successive expansions. . . . [We historians] must make the necessary effort of imagination and effort of will to break our way out of the prison walls of the local and short-lived histories of our own countries and our own cultures...
...faster than expected because of 1) high production and 2) cancellations due to high prices and living costs. They expected that spot deliveries would be commonplace by year's end. Emerson Radio likewise took a dim view of the size of the market. In the first big break in radio prices, it reduced the price 20% on its leading portable model. There was little doubt that department-store buying, which had lagged since Christmas, was well down from the peak. Last week's sales were only 9-13% in dollar volume above those of a year ago. Counting...