Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beethoven: "Jena" Symphony (Janssen Symphony, Werner Janssen conducting; Victor; 6 sides). Experts agree that this work, unearthed in manuscript in 1909, may or may not be Beethoven. One has described it as 6/8 Haydn, ⅛ Mozart, 1/16 late Beethoven and 1/16 Schubert. It sounds like agreeable, lightweight early 19th Century music, is admirably performed and recorded...
...lightweight edition of your Aug. 2 issue reached me here in the Middle East on Aug. 10! . . . Congratulations...
...upset of Army in 1913. Described by a New York paper as "a team from South Bend, Ill.," Notre Dame uncorked the historic Dorais-to-Rockne passing combination for the first convincing demonstration that air power alone can overcome land strength. From the sidelines a lightweight halfback named Dwight Eisenhower watched 13 Irish passes whistle by the hopelessly confused West Pointers. That game was the beginning of a new kind of football...
...Dutch-English ancestry and why he is nonetheless American was more charming than illuminating. Ellsworth Huntington, Yale professor of geography, discussed What Geography Does To America with too much educational zeal and a faint flavor of patronage. Paul Gallico relieved this solemn though unponderous tone with a lightweight piece designed to prove that Americans love baseball because it is their one escape from female domination...
After three years of planning-and a whopping 1938 deficit-Hoffman and Vance took a chance on the lightweight Champion. It put Studebaker back on its feet. Then came a share in the biggest job in history: war contracts, including a big order for Wright airplane engines, that will skyrocket its sales to around $350,000,000 this year...