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Word: swingful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music in swing tempo will be rendered by Eddie Wittstein and his music-makers at the informal dance in Yale's Paine Whitney Gymnasium on the evening of December 1; he is tuning up for a turnout of at least 1100 couples. An admission charge of $3.60 per couple will help allay the expenses, $850 of which is allotted for decorations alone. No corsages will be allowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoopsters Face 15 Rivals on Winter Docket; Eli Dance Slated; Brown Rated Even Foe | 11/16/1945 | See Source »

Shifting to winter headquarters indoors, the undergraduate exercise program will swing into high gear Monday with the addition of House basketball, wrestling, and squash, Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Athletics, announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS ADOPT WINTER PLANS | 11/9/1945 | See Source »

...bomb last week. He was heard with respect: his classic E=mc² formula, announced in 1905, was the foundation of atomic research; a letter from him to President Roosevelt in 1939 helped set the atomic thunders rolling. Last week, in an Atlantic Monthly article ghost-written by Raymond Swing, the sage of modern science spoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Einstein on Politics | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

Then, only statesmanship of the highest order could swing the public of both countries behind the deal, and save a keystone of postwar international economic order and progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Unwitting Shylock | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...pieces, along with an occasional unfortunate stab at such contemporary favorites as Bell Bottom Trousers. If the audience-or the band itself-likes a number, Bunk plays it again, sometimes a third time, each version entirely different. Bunk calls their style of playing ragtime ("they call it jazz, swing, they change the name. It's ragtime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz? Swing? It's Ragtime | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

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