Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important of his "principles" is explained thus, "Harmonic analysis is more than a description of chords as individuals. In the broader aspects it is a process involving of the shapes, proportions and underlying skeleton of a piece of music, as well as its more superficial texture... The most important observation about a given chord does not concern its make-up as regards intervals between the notes, etc., but rather what its relation is to the rest of the music...
Poor Daniel. It may be that he was not wanted, and that the end of the tale will be disclosed with mute clarity when a skeleton in a burlap bag is washed ashore on the coast of Connecticut. But when the grim remains, whitened by wind and rain, are laid gently to rest, they will have the sympathy and respect of every true sportsman. Daniel has been a noble beast, and, like all good dogs...
...flagship Majestic is still the biggest ship afloat but soon she will be surpassed by France's Normandie. Balm for British pride lies on the ways of John Brown & Son's shipyard in Clydesbank, Scotland - Cunard's unfinished No. 534 (probable name: Princess Elizabeth), the skeleton of a 73,000-ton monster which will be "world's biggest & fastest" liner. Funds ran out and work was dropped on No. 534 two years ago. Last week, with the merger a fact, Neville Chamberlain loosened the strings of his Exchequer. For completion of No. 534 he promised...
...President, last week Mr. Roosevelt bundled up warmly and set off in his limousine to make a succession of sick calls. Through sleet and along roads as slick as glass, he first drove to the Naval Hospital. There he found Secretary Ickes propped up in bed attended by a skeleton staff from the Interior Department, trying his best to disregard a fractured rib sustained when he fell on an icy pavement. Oil Administrator, Public Works Administrator, a holder of five extra-cabinet jobs, Mr. Ickes knows that he and Secretary Wallace are the two men on whom the President depends...
...remaining quite a pleasant pair. One girl has lived in incest, and ends with suicide. A man loses wife and place because of gross and public cowardice. It is a tribute to the skill of the author that all these themes, so bloody and thundery when related in skeleton, impress the reader of the book as the most natural and commonplace. This fact is perhaps the most convincing proof that Maugham has succeeded in portraying reactions and motives in a way to jibe with the experience...