Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time stands on its own feet as a piece of music and an expression of the composer's self. Most screen scores, even the more recent ones, tend to stick pretty closely to certain standard formulae. To compose music for a comedy especially leaves little leeway for originality, although Prokofieff's comic score to Lieutenant Kije, now recorded as a separate suite, is a masterpiece of its kind. A couple of years back, movie composers tinkered with classical themes as seeds for their music. The turned out by this method some very unusual scores, notably that of Swiss Family...
...than 10% will probably prefer Choice No. 1. But Choice No. 2 also affords a floor of 4% below which no profit, however much improved over 1936-39, is counted as excess. Thus railroads, shipbuilders, other defense beneficiaries who have been close to or in the red, are given leeway before they feel the tax. If a company has a profit of $150,000 (after normal taxes) and had previously earned the 10% maximum allowable rate on a capital of $1,000,000, its credit would be $100,000, leaving $50,000 taxable less the $5,000 "specific exemption...
...Leeway for Youth...
...York Times, fictioneer and political pundit, has much more than a safe-&-sane, down-home twang. In his ten years on the Times he rose swiftly from cub to something approaching an Elder Statesman, writing editorials, roving Europe, handling extra-special news stories, enjoying a leeway few Times reporters have had in the news columns...
Even with a 30-second leeway, re-huddling the tonnage of a modern football team to face these defensive shifts sometimes earns more penalties than first downs. Consequently many teams in recent seasons have reverted to old-fashioned signal calling. The new 25-second rule, in the opinion of some strategists, will eventually put huddling on the shelf with turtleneck sweaters and the onside kick...