Word: ponderance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Change the boards of the symphony into young, active organizations, not figureheads of the diamond horseshoe. Let New York ponder the fact that the Detroit Symphony, withered on the vine four years ago, will pay for itself this season with radio programs, recordings, concerts and moneys from rental of the Music Hall, our permanent home. Culture must be put on a businesslike basis before it can stand on its own. ... If singing jingles can pay for themselves, so can Brahms, Beethoven and Bach...
...answer to this kind of dialectics-and he thought it was an important one for Americans to ponder. Whether he stood on the side of the angels depended upon where the angels stood. Let his decriers call him reactionary. Is Liberty reactionary? His philosophy embraced two objectives: I) the greatest political and economic freedom for the greatest number, consistent with the enjoyment of some freedom by all; 2) equality for all individuals-not absolute equality but equality of opportunity and before...
...PIVCEVICH, understudy to Hollingshead last year, is still in that capacity; but he has been well versed in both right and left tackle duties this year to provide relief at either spot. The 18 year old, 210 ponder will be the first to get the call if injuries crop...
...Horsemen. Democrats had watched the Republicans in action before, and Joe Martin could ponder some of that history. The position he found himself in was not without historical parallel, but it had an unusual aspect. Harry Truman, his party rejected, would have trouble functioning effectively as President. Many of the Executive functions, for all practical purposes, must be taken over by Arthur Vandenberg and Robert Taft in the Senate; Joe Martin in the nation's most representative body, the House...
...center, a 15-foot granite cross rises over a tiny headstone; a pale pink granite bench faces an open, granite book. The stones, sculptured by Malvina Hoffman, are now wrapped in canvas. But when the wrappings come off, visitors may sit on the bench and ponder the book's message...