Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Designer Stafford tried to interest the Defense Ministry in civilian camouflage but met indifference. Later, the Government perked up its ears. Since September Mr. Stafford and his artists have busied themselves developing techniques for "painting out" vulnerable buildings. Their first step is to obtain aerial photographs of all aspects of a building and to study the surrounding countryside. Then the expert camouflagers build and camouflage a scale model before the actual building is tackled...
...financial crisis. Taunted for betraying his party, he replied that he would rather desert his party than his country. The Labor Cabinet fell, and he became Prime Minister as leader of a Conservative Coalition. Ruthless slashing of expenses, increases in taxes and refunding of the debt at lower interest rates prepared the way for a real recovery from Depression...
...interest mainly to aficionados of America's native rhythm, the Goodman biography provides a play-by-play account of the only jazz artist who, without once compromising with tinhorn commercialism, battled his way up from tootling in a synagogue to running his own band. The book also functions as a sort of Who's Who in hot music. In his 20 years in the business, Goodman has worked with or heard and known all the best players...
...toughest and tenderest, his roughest written and most mellifluous, his most realistic and, in its ending, his most melodramatic, his angriest and most idyllic. It is "great" in the way that Uncle Tom's Cabin was great-because it is inspired propaganda, half tract, half human-interest story, emotionalizing a great theme...
...taking from the ranks of "minor" into House, we believe that it is both possible and even fairly probable that in the future some of them might be added to the select seven. Soccer appears to have the greatest chance in this regard now, and, should participation, outside interest, and funds permit, the day may well come, perhaps soon, when soccer will be back in the intercollegiates...