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Word: themes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made the announcement in Boston. Because it was Browder who spoke, his hearers knew that the "new party line" was really Moscow talking. A quick transition to socialism in the U. S. is now the object of his party, said he, returning to Joseph Stalin's old theme: that the U. S. is ripe for collapse and revolutionary restitution. Of his more recent declarations (that socialism is not now practicable for the capitalistic U. S.) Earl Browder made no mention last week. Said he, abandoning Communist support of Roosevelt's foreign and domestic policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Veil Torn | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Peace at any price" seems to be the theme of the numerous student pacifist organizations meeting over Armistice weekend to prove the folly and uselessness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pacifists Plan to Display Feelings in Rallies Fixed for Armistice Weekend | 11/9/1939 | See Source »

...course, the special nature of brass technique requires a special type of writing by composers. Skillful handling, as in the bombastic theme near the end of Strauss's Don Juan and in the rich romantic treatment of Brahm's Fourth Symphony (which will be played this week) exploits the qualities of power and sonority which make the brass so valuable in the modern orchestra...

Author: By L.c. Holvik, | Title: The Music Box | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

Lampy's literary standards fell to a new low Saturday with the publication of a story which had previously been handed in as an English A-1 theme and returned with a grade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPOON STORY FLUNKED BY EX-PRESIDENT OF ADVOCATE | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...best Hearst style, Egan yesterday buffooned Bill Bingham as a master hypocrite and the H.A.A. as a prude but shrewd sweat-shop. The gist of Dave's theme revolves as follows: Bill Bingham was a ringer in the class of 1916, who after graduation betrayed his own caste by cutting the pay of athletes employed by the H.A.A. kitchen; Harvard has a lousy football team and will continue the same way as long as Bingham bends backward from professionalism...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

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