Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mighty hefty thread for a somewhat slim story to hand on, but with the material they had to work with, the producers could probably have filmed a hit if they interspersed glimpses of the Boston telephone directory to sustain the plot interest. Every ditty that horse-and-buggy gramophones ground out is here, from "Tiger Rag" to "After the Ball" and "My Melancholy Baby." With a couple of the screen's best song-pluggers, Mary Martin and Bing Crosby, to do the honors, these old--but not outworn--Hit Paraders pack all the punch, plus a good deal more nostalgia...
...bauxite: ". . . testimony . . . completely fails to sustain the Government's allegation...
...concrete cause for worry. The U.S., they might have known, would not negotiate with Japan on the lopsided basis that the Japanese are pleased to call equitable. An agreement was as remote as the moon. But people in the position of the Chinese needed more than logic to sustain them. For four years they had cowered in dugouts, trekked thousands of miles, hungered, frozen, fought, died. What they had fought for, they told themselves bitterly, not even a friendly power could give away. And now, while Japanese troops hammered at Changsha (see p. 28), Washington's diplomacy hammered...
...start the dancing in the literary lanes and book fairs of the nation. But though "Grapes" and "Bell" both came close to forcing reluctant admissions of their right to the fabulous title, on both occasions the book reviewers made notable goal line stands to keep the slate clean and sustain the hopes of countless knights of the pen that they would be the first to reach the end zone of literary immortality...
...figure, only 70 men below the total registration in the College last year, indicates that the graduate schools will sustain the major portion of the 10 per cent drop in enrollment which is expected for the University as a whole...