Word: main
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Main purposes of the plan are to check fascist lawlessness by cutting off war materials; to build up a reserve of these materials in the United States without further drain on the national budget; and to get some return on our war debts...
...main objection to this band is that it plays a stereotyped style of music, very often not original. By clever buildup and publicity the public has been led to believe that this is the real thing in swing. Shallow stuff like this will lead the listening audience to become very tired of something they have been told was swing, and therefore to condemn it. "Swing is a verb, not a noun." You can play things in swing, but there is no such thing as a swing tune. Without good, sincere swing men in the band, unhampered by stiff, copied arrangements...
They reveal the three main characteristics of variable stars--their variable change in color, their period, and their physical make...
...primary source in Christian theology is no easy matter for the lay reader. Language, terminology, unfamiliar dogma, all conspire to hide the author's purpose. Yet with the scholarly background which Dean Sperry has provided for each of these works, the reader will be able to catch the main philosophical points and appreciate for himself the greatness of Dean Sperry's subject...
...Karblem Bundo" in the March Progressive are refuted by Professor "E. Lin Berchan," J. D. Black, and Wassily Leontief; Professor A. H. Hansen bestrides the fence; and Mr. Spencer Pollard, supporting the truth of the charges, hands "Mr. Bunde" a round of ammunition gratis in the noble sentences: "My main criticism is the tacit assumption of the article that the chief interest of the Economics Department is in teaching students. We do pay a little attention to students, as little as possible generally, and if we pay more than that, the University soon ceases to pay us anything except...