Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Very few people agree with Koussevitzky's choice of tempi in Beethoven, but almost no one can deny that they are always honest and effective. It is often sound to get a new impression of a well-worn piece; when the work is one as great as the "Eroica," it becomes essential. If the approach is different, it is studied; if it makes the work sound different than it does with other conductors, there is always a great chance that, perhaps, Beethoven wanted it to sound just that...
Economics & Rice. This peninsula's capital plant has been worn out by Jap exploitation and the drain of war. Machinery is falling apart, roads are knocked to rubble. Industry is at a standstill -laborers won't work for the former owners, and wage ceilings...
Auto Suggestion. In Manhattan, three well-worn police patrol wagons - known in the trade as "pie wagons" - were sold for pie wagons...
...public (i.e., private) schools to accept scholarship children for at least 30% of their enrollments. Even if they returned to their top hats, Westminster boys would have to doff them to Socialist Ministers of the Crown. Meanwhile, they went about London in the shockingly plain grey flannels they had worn in Herefordshire, to which they were evacuated before the blitz. Westminster would never be quite the same...
...Franklin Roosevelt's death, Byrnes would now be a lawyer in Spartanburg, S.C. (pop. 32,249). He had been passed over for the Vice Presidency at Chicago; he had been passed over again for Secretary of State when Ed Stettinius got the job. Shortly after Yalta, tired and worn out, disgusted and fed up, Byrnes quit as War Mobilizer. But on the second day of the Truman Administration he was back at the White House, conferring with the man whom he had known in the Senate. He lay low during San Francisco, but after it was over...