Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other House games yesterday, Adams' basketball team defeated Winthrop, 40 to 28, scoring 14 points in an over-time period. The Gold Coasters were trailing, 26 to 24, ten seconds before the main part of the game was finished, when Chuck Roche scored two foul shots to force the extra period...
Nagy, who resigned recently as first secretary of the Hungarian embassy in Washington, declared that the main difference between the foreign policies of the U.S. and Russia lies in long range planning behind them. "Although certain Russian deeds taken separately appear to be nonsensical, at least they are part of a concrete, overall design...
Whatever happens, his present surpassing skill at "being useful" is the main reason why the average veteran at Harvard never had it so good...
Ever since 1928, when his America won a Musical America, magazine contest (with Koussevitzky and Stokowski among the judges), Bloch had had a notion that its broad, sweeping main theme was the best U.S. national-anthem music around -and specifically a lot better than The Star-Spangled Banner. But in 22 years, The Star-Spangled Banner had held its own and Bloch's America had been heard only a handful of times...
...most, America sounded un-Blochian: a muddied mixture of Indian tom-toms, Pop! Goes the Weasel, anvils (the industrial age), automobile horns and telephone bells, with his main theme bobbing up here & there. When the grand finale finally came, the audience rose to its feet and roared out the anthem-2,300 voices plus a full orchestra and a booming pipe organ...