Word: rung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making do in an emergency. On opening night Manno dropped his baton into a crack in the floor just as the curtain was going up and couldn't fish it out. He sent a violinist for something to replace it, conducted part of the first act with the rung of a chair. Said he: "I had to lie down for quite a while afterward before my strength came back...
Pitted, flaccid Frank Clair is the hero of a new novel by Janet Miriam Taylor Caldwell, whose previous novels (This Side of Innocence, The Eagles Gather, Dynasty of Death, etc.) have rung up a total sale of almost 2,000,000 copies. This Side of Innocence was the biggest fiction seller of 1946. Consequently, the appearance of her new novel is an event for her admirers-and, for analytical critics, another ripe opportunity to examine the ingredients and treatment wherewith Author Caldwell has made herself one of the richest novelists...
...keep-a-good-musician-down theory, neither technical training for him nor decentralization for music will keep him from hurting artists. And unless the public realizes that the critic, for from being a God of Sound, frequently goes home a "defeated man," the true defeat will continue to be rung up on the side of music and the musician...
Harvard track is experiencing a post-war renaissance. Evolving from the carbon-copy war teams, the current Varsity machine now finds itself within striking distance of the Heptagonal ladder's top rung, which it occupied in the spring...
...mathematician, not us a teacher. The fact that over half the Department's men may be adequate teachers, however, does not men that there is no issue. Saying that the problem is exaggerated is no salve to the many students who have had to step to the next higher rung of the ladder with only a foggy notion of how they get past the preceding...