Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...setting of the individual words--was considered inferior to that in the works of Byrd. This sort of comparison is useless as a way of determining the musical value of either type of composition, for in the orchestral-choral concert work, the details of fitting the individual words and phrases to the musical lines is secondary to the general movement of the whole composition. In the small church piece, on the other hand, the subtle enhancement of the phonetic and expressive qualities of each word and phrase by the musical line is the primary element of the style...
...TIME, Oct. 23, appears the phrase, "a radiogenic actor." There will be a small fee of $.04 ($.05 in Canada) for each use of this word for the first ten times, the rate thereafter being $.03 per adjective. . . NORMAN CORWIN...
...favorite phrase among Italian Fascisti is "changing of the guard." It refers to a supposedly fixed policy of rotating the Party's big men in the State's big jobs; actually it is usually used to make crucial political shifts seem casual and routine. Last week, when Italy's hierarchy was violently shaken up, the phrase was shouted loud on Rome's seven hills. But no amount of inspired pooh-poohing could make the changes unimportant...
...child over three years old cannot hold his water, the child and the water should be examined." In most cases, the Lancet continued, the cause of bed-wetting is not physiological but psychological. "If the parent or guardian believes that (in Mr. Churchill's inspiring phrase) 'we have only to persevere to conquer,' she will communicate her belief. She will see also that the child has no fluids to drink after five o'clock, that he empties his bladder before he gets into bed, and that he is roused to void completely again at a later...
...correspondent asked Mr. Roosevelt whether the Administration's known intent to ask Congress for still more money for a bigger Big Navy means that he favors a "two-ocean navy." That phrase, said the President, is a beautiful slogan, meaningless in practice. Then he turned to a press-conference guest, Publisher Joe Patterson of the New York Daily News, said the same thing applies to that gentleman's favorite epigram ("Two Ships For One"). What the U. S. must have, the President went on, is a Navy big enough for its maximum, varying defense needs in any ocean...