Word: sways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Jacob there is a close connection between popular music and politics. He concludes: "The music made use of by mankind, though it marches slowly and haltingly, quite decisively attaches itself to the political hegemony of the epoch. The royal minuet held sway while France was supreme; the waltz became the undisputed monarch of the ballroom when Napoleon was overthrown with the help of the Germans. One hundred years later the German-Austrian waltz died out when the victorious troops of America streamed across the ocean to the battlefields of Europe...
...fixed charges each year-enough to boost 1935's $6,139,654 loss toward a 1940 profit. It will also free enough cash to get the company started on a 10-year, $22,000,000 modernization program to replace its lumbering trolley cars and sway-backed busses...
...come away! My soul is full of discord and dismay." All during the lecture he nodded and frowned and bowed and articulated to himself. When the instructor read a particularly stirring passage, the little man would shut his book, lean back in his chair, and with eyes closed, would sway from side to side like a cobra, hypnotized by the music of the verse...
...child, Gustaf V was sent to a Stockholm private school and his then reigning uncle, King Karl XV, was engaged at this time in shepherding a gradual constitutional change, whereby effective political power in Sweden later passed safely from the Crown-which had enjoyed autocratic sway-into the hands of the elected Parliament and responsible Ministers...
Thus far the resolve holds sway over the hatred. But let the Allies begin to lose ground. Let the French millions dash themselves to pieces on the Westwall and the German juggernant begin to roll. Then will a huge wave of propaganda sweep over the nation, rivalled only by a new wave of natural sympathy for the Allied cause. The result will be a sea of passion almost impossible to contain. Then will the resolve crumble and the hatred arise. And then America...