Word: takes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think of a better category for this experiment in language classify it for himself. . . Lin Yutang's "Moment in Peking" offers a glimpse into the world of a Chinese whose views on himself, life and the Occident have gained him a wide following. Don't take your preconceptions about the novel form with you into this novel. . . There's always John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath," whether you think it's the Great American novel of real worth to make an impression on the reading public since "G--W--T--W--". . . Vardis Fisher tells the story of the Mormen trek...
...Tigers are definitely expected to be better this season, particularly since they have absorbed more thoroughly since they have absorbed more thoroughly the system of play of Franklin Capon, the coach who came from Michigan to take over the Tigers in 1939. They will be tall, as they usually are and certainly more skillful...
...examples, let's take two records by one band and see which is what and why. About a year and a half ago, Gene Krupa's band made a record called "I Know That You Know" (Brunswick). It was the first record they made, and as a matter of fact, was their first band effort. This record was not only stiff, it suffered from rigor mortis, and here's why: everybody in the band, particularly drummerman Krupa, was playing ahead of the beat. As you play the notes of a melody, it sets up a four-four tempo. Krupa...
...difference between "all the colored boys" having rhythm and "all of the white boys" not having it. It's not a question of having it: it's a question of knowing what to do with it, once you've set it up. And the colored boys just seem to "take it easy" naturally...
Predictions are dangerous, but if all the Crimson "ifs" were realized, this squad would have a fine chance to break up the firm Leheigh-Penn State domination of Eastern wrestling in the championships at Syracuse next March. It would take about four individual titlists to bring the crown to Cambridge, and with a lot of hard work, that quartet might possibly emerge from among Ted Schoenberg, Bruce Richardson, Dick Thomas, Bill Daughaday, Tom Lacey and Vern Miller