Word: styles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S anonymous editors certainly rise above plain journalistic style every so often. Your small classic, "Background for War" deserves to be studied by every class in English. It is written in that best and most difficult to achieve of all English language writing - clearly and simply and apparently without effort...
With vacation season scorching along, the hottest item in any radio salesroom this week is a natty, luggage-style, portable radio that runs on batteries, needs no wall plug or aerial outlet, can be toted squawking along in a car, a canoe, on a bicycle. With 200,000 of these already sold since their introduction last autumn by Philco, 28 manufacturers who now make them hope to sell some 500,000 more this season at prices ranging from...
...band is deservedly noted for the manner in which they play their tunes--great precision and timing, but still maintaining a solid Kansas City swing. Most unusual feature of the band is the rhythm in which they play a great many of their slow selections--a type of bounce style that never is as tiring as the Goodman four-four "smack." As to what bounce is, combine the sensations of riding over a bumpy road, and Hedy Lamarr for best explanation. Listen to the band's recording of "My Blue Heaven" and you'll see what is meant. Besides playing...
...when he doesn't do too well (see "Life goes to A Party"). His main trouble is that he goes off on these terribly stiff powerhouse trumpet phrases that simply tear the walls and your ears to pieces, and while there is a certain amount of kick to powerhouse style, you get tired of it very quickly, and a slow blues style such as on "Just A Mood" is quite welcome...
Full-grown, old-style war babies were no better off. President Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel (whose big Eastern shipyards are running at full capacity, have just received new orders for one battleship and two cruisers) saw his common selling at 30% below the year's high. U. S. Steel Corp. was floundering in the red. General Electric's Gerard Swope had nothing to cheer about: his April orders had failed to hold the March improvement...