Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...object of good swing is the creation of musical ideas ad lib that have continuity, simplicity, and sincerity (need we add, originality). Any band style of playing that aids this is therefore good; any that hinders it is bad. In the opinion of most musicians, the "stiff" or "power-house" style hinders the above, and is bad whereas the "relaxed" or "colored lag" style is the very essence of that thing swing...
...John Palfrey had never touched a squash racquet before coming to college, and his progress has been astonishing. The hard-working lefthander may soon be as well known for his squash as his tennis. Bill Wood at number four has great potentialities. He has more natural sapped and power than anyone on the squad and is picking up the knack of controlling this power, Don Marvin, at number five, is a newcomer to the top group, but he has natural ability which should soon place him on a par with the best of the racquet wielders...
...perfidious military clique, the Mannerheim-Cajander vermin . . . . . " and at the same time declared in a front-page editorial entitled, "The American Press--the Lowest Yet," that "the intelligence of the American people is being assaulted with a campaign of vile, hypocritical lies about the Soviet Union . . . the one great power where the people govern . . . the one great power that can have no imperialistic aims...
...information handed out by the tutoring schools, however plentiful, however zealously inculcated, strips down to a warped skeleton of data which is only vaguely related to the essence of a college course. When the fatal hour strikes, the cram-stand scholar will find that, in return for his purchasing power, he has a head-bursting mass of detail. When he is asked to demonstrate his understanding and coordination of the material, he will have nothing but facts--and at the most, trite formulae stringing them together. Maybe these formulae stringing them together. Maybe these formulae will be enough, but then...
...general, the Corporation defended the wisdom of retaining the power to withhold permission for use of the buildings as "essential and proper." Pointing out that refusal will be rare, the Corporation concludes, ". . . attention is again called to the fact that Harvard has at no time adopted the policy of refusing permission to a speaker because of his party affiliations or his political views...