Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cotton men for them to rush out and plant the biggest crop in 15 years. Last week, when the Agriculture Department announced that the 1951-52 crop will total 17,200,000 bales, a whopping 1,200,000 bales above all previous expectations, cotton men were singing a different tune. Now that the glut has pushed the price down to 35? a Ib., they want the Government to step in. Six months ago, they opposed a ceiling; now they want a higher floor. At present, under the price-support formula, they can get Government loans which assure them a minimum...
...answered curtly that that was a matter of concern to no one more than the U.S.,' "which bore the burden of Japan's war of aggression for nearly four years, as against six days of Soviet Union belligerency." The right of the U.S. to call the tune was a point recognized in other capitals. It was a peace of magnanimity based on power...
...Institute was started ten years ago by Stanford's Edgar E. Robinson, who wanted to get scholars and teachers together. Last week, the teachers got a ringing earful from Columbia's Historian Allan Nevins. It's about time, said Nevins, that U.S. historians changed their tune...
...tune needed, said Librarian of Congress Luther Evans, is more military history. "As one of my colleagues at Columbia once said: 'In abandoning the drum-and-trumpet school of history, we adopted the bum-and-strumpet school...
Thus in Nashville, the Broadway of "country" music, another hillbilly tune was sent on its way last week. The singer, Tennessee-bred Carl Smith, 24, Columbia's latest country star, was cutting a few sides to follow up the three (Let's Live a Little, Mr. Moon, If Teardrops Were...