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Word: mainstays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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That dwindling band of eighteenth-century gentlemen (that was once, in former years, the mainstay of this institution) will be cheered by the bracing news that it now has a Christmas record all to itself. Called An Eighteenth-Century Christmas, it's put out by Vanguard (Bach Guild BG-569) and includes Corelli's Christmas Concerto, Torelli's Pastoral Concerto for the Nativity, several pieces by J.S. Bach, and the Haydn Toy Symphony (by Leopold Mozart). I Soloisti di Zagreb are the instrumentalists (charmin' fellahs) and they are led by Antonio Janigro...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Old 'Crimson's' Guide to Christmas Cheer: 'II | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Forward Mike Denihan has been the mainstay of the B.U. attack thus far, with four goals and seven assists on the season...

Author: By Efrem Sigel, | Title: Varsity Meets B.U. Tonight Important Hockey Test | 12/8/1962 | See Source »

...teaching fellowship--a mainstay of the college's educational machinery for the past 23 years--will be subject to a critical review today by a committee from the University's Board of overseers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Section Men To Be Studied By Overseers | 12/3/1962 | See Source »

...rate has stayed above 90% for the last ten years, and the Beverly Hills grosses some $6,000,000 a year, making it the most profitable hotel, room for room, in the world. With this kind of loyal clientele, the Beverly Hills scorns the convention trade, which is the mainstay of lesser establishments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hotel: With a Smile | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...Agon-to electrify the audience. More sophisticated and far more abstract than Russian ballet fans are accustomed to, it moved even dissenters to applaud at certain high points. The upper galleries, jammed with younger members of the audience, erupted in noise at the curtain. Ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya, a Bolshoi mainstay, remarked that although she was against abstract dancing in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shock Waves in Moscow | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

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