Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preliminary work have already been taken in connection with the preparations for the 1940 Games, so that the Organization Committee has a good start for the 1952 Games. The Helsinki Stadium, together with special stadia for swimming contests, rowing, horseback-riding, wrestling, etc., are already built . . . The Helsinki main Stadium has accommodations for more than 80,000 persons...
...main, the people had voted for no change in a social concept which had been pretty well formulated by Franklin Roosevelt in the years between 1933 and 1937. They had also voted against Republicanism. On the basis of still incomplete returns this week, Dewey in 1948 received but a scant 200,000 votes more than Herbert Hoover in 1928 (the last time the Republicans...
...main point is that "Mr. Raphaelson's criterion 'easy to follow' applies best to the funny papers," which is so. It is also true that this standard led to some flippancy that Miss Handy points out, and to a false judgment of her own poem "Narcissus," which she does not point out, but which I hereby correct by announcing that in my chastened opinion, reached after a re-reading, "Narcissus" is a fine poem, in spite of the confusing punctuation that makes it seem harder to follow than...
Before every game Munro's main worry is that his team won't "play its one game," but will drift into football tactics. "If we play soccer we can," he says, "we shouldn't have much trouble with most College teams...
...well as to receive them; that the best--in fact, the only--way to bring this situation about is to convince the Soviet Union that the postwar expansion of world Communism and Russian influence has about run its course; that the means appropriate to this objective are, in the main, economic assistance and, in a few cases, military assistance...