Word: writing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More money from contributions enabled the band to make several trips that fall, including one to Princeton. It was here that a New Yorker correspondent heard, saw, and went home to write that the Harvard Band was "the best in the business," a nickname that has become synonymous with the Harvard Band, and, to most students and alumni, a correct evaluation...
...were commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation to write an American music drama, you would start looking for a play with intense dramatic interest. You would also do well to choose something set in a locale with a musical idiom...
...mass movement of mankind has its historians and its philosophers; so did this summer's migration. A Columbia professor and a group of students went to Europe just to write a book on American students in Europe. And a Social Relations man was running a complicated poll to find out why everyone was going...
...drilling expenses from their income, and later deduct 27½% of their annual gross from the well, as "depletion." Moreover, they could sell the well later and pay only a long-term capital gains (25%) tax on the profit. If the well was dry, they could write off the whole cost as a loss, thus cut down taxable income. Though many a hopeful had hit nothing but sand and salt, from Texas to Utah last week a handful of luckier stars had struck it rich...
...another Times ad, Callahan asked plaintively: "What's the matter with Montana? . . . Don't they like flats in Montana? . . . Aren't legs a national tradition? Montana, Montana, please write." Wrote one embittered Missoula man: "I don't think our women need these flats. Their feet are flat enough . . . Most of them go barefooted out here...