Word: transient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course the transient appeal of the pop number, making for a quick turnover, is the main reason for the boom in this portion of the music industry. Anyone who starts to buy slick discs to feed the hungry jaws of one of those super-charged record changers wearies of most of them so fast he is continually in the market for replacements until either his machine has a stroke or his tastes improve...
Closemouthed about its new activity, The Air Forces nevertheless let a few hints drop on the scope of the Ferrying Command's job. At Detroit, at Nashville, at Dayton and other points it had set up stations manned by crack engineering crews. Their job was to fit transient bombers with items of equipment (instruments, armament, etc.) not available when they finished their last test flights at the factories. To man the bombers, the Ferrying Command already had around 200 air crews, was reputedly planning to run the total up to 600 before long. For this expansion it was training...
Professor Henry Steele Commager, of Columbia University, will give the annual address of the Association, which this year will celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the famous sermon on "The Transient and the Permanent in Christianity" given in Boston May 19, 1841 by the Rev. Mr. Theodore Parker, one of the most famous graduates of the Harvard Divinity School. Professor Commager's title will be, "The Implications of Transcendentalism Today...
...often very lonely, and it was a loneliness that the four-year Harvard transient might find it hard to understand or sympathize with. The fascination of watching the University, always changing, yet always the same, obsessed Pierre la Rose, and such an occupation is not always rewarding. But he was a man of witty conversation, and his isolation was as graceful as his manner was gracious...
...have peace with the Nazis only at the price of total surrender." He described the Nazi regime in language stripped of both sentiment and profanity: ". . . In their background the concentration camp and the servants of God in chains. . . . Shootings and chains and concentration camps are not simply the transient tools but the very altars of modern dictatorships. They may talk of a 'new order' . . . but what they have in mind is but a revival of the oldest and the worst tyranny. In that there is no liberty, no religion, no hope...