Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conducting a forum on "What is Wrong or Right with College Writing," has not been so fortunate. Believing at least partly that the reason they receive little good writing is that little is written, the editors prefer to set their hopes for succession drives for subscribers, when the main drive should be for contributors...
Ivor A. Richards, University Professor, declared last night at a meeting of Radcliffe World Federalists that the main obstacles to world peace are "mental," and that individuals must prepare themselves for peace before any successful collective bargaining agreement can be reached to prevent...
...signs remain of the old days of Castle Corners. The grandfather clock in the main hall still reminds one that the President's office next door was once a drawing room. The white-painted rooms are broad and still luxurious, and the landings of the stair case command a fine view of the Yard that used to be a henyard. But Fay House is a house with a present as well as a past. The sign on the third floor has a commanding message for today's Radcliffe girl. In soliciting funds for the College's 70th anniversary, it says...
...Main lineup changes saw Hal Marshall and DiBlasio move up to the first line with Doug Anderson, breaking up the old combination of Anderson, Carman, and JoeKittredge...
Aside from the dubious point that today's musicals lack the talent that is provided by a Berlin or an Astaire, the main superiority of a film like "Follow the Fleet" is that it lacks the horrible brassiness of modern musicals. It is inexpressibly delightful to sit in a theater without the constant danger of having a big-name band jump up and down noisily. Here the commercial Jazz is present but not overpowering, and the picture wends its pleasant way without mishap. A perhaps interesting note: Betty Grable is in the billing, but it was impossible to find...