Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...higher than ever, record companies are taking a nostalgic second look at some of their earlier artists. Among the more impressive results: the Jazztone Society's ten-disk collection, Styles of Jazz, including that original recording of Livery Stable Blues, a fast and vastly exuberant piece in a weak-and-strong two-beat, with barnyard sounds reproduced by cornet, clarinet and trombone. From there, the album ranges over various jazz styles-blues, swing, cool-and reaches a high point with Fats Waller's full-chorded, stomping piano playing and lowdown comic singing. Decca's four-record Encyclopedia...
...Department can scrape up the enthusiasm and, with the help of the Administration, some money, the English major need no longer struggle under the burden of a weak tutorial program and restrictive requirements...
Currently, Princeton is in third with a 7-3 record, while Columbia (6-4) holds down fourth, only one game ahead of Harvard (5-5). But the Lions will in all probability trample hapless Cornell tonight, and has games against weak Brown and Penn left on its schedule...
...last match before the all-important Yale contest, the varsity squash team will face a weak Amherst squad this afternoon at 2 p.m. in Hemenway Gymnasium. The varsity will be playing without the services of number three singles player, Larry Sears, who sprained his ankle in the national championships...
Economic unity is only the beginning of political unity. Common political attitudes will arise from identical financial interests, and although independent political action may be the first sign of Europe's strength, the United States should prefer a self-sufficient ally to a band of weak subsidiaries...