Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were offended by a sentence in this column which, without explanation, dismissed the Brahms symphonies as "academic exercises". What I meant by the statement is this: when one listens to a Tchaikowski symphony, such as the Fourth or Fifth, one follows easily and clearly the tonal pattern. Contrasting themes grow naturally out of each other, and there is a sense of inevitability about the working-out of material, a smooth flow and a feeling for clarity and balance. One gets none of this feeling from a symphony like the Brahms First. Here there is no free flow in the melodic...
...suggestions of a need for "national unity" in the "crisis of civilization," which are now being employed in an apparent attempt to present America with a third term fait accompli, must be rejected. And in the meantime, those whose daily prayer it is that the war hysteria will not grow to more alarming proportions, will rejoice that a man of demonstrated ability and extraordinary political courage has ranged the guns of his oratory on the side of a calm, intelligent, logical analysis of the world situation...
...that he should sacrifice his seals of office." Last Card. Neville Chamberlain had one card left to play, and it must have hurt him to have to play it. Since he took Winston Churchill into his Cabinet when war began, he has watched his First Lord's popularity grow steadily, while his steadily dwindled. Though the two men have long been political enemies, Churchill told friends when he entered the Cabinet that he had "signed up for the duration." War chief for less than six weeks, Churchill knew that Britain knew that responsibility for Norway went further back than...
...wheat wouldn't grow, and won a prize. The hen wouldn't lay, so she won. A dog wouldn't pay any attention to anybody, so he got a prize...
...LONG AS THE GRASS SHALL GROW-Oliver La Farge-Alliance...