Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lewis Mumford will speak tonight in the New Lecture Hall on "Economic Backgrounds," the fifth in the series of six lectures on "The Background of American Architecture...
...last 76 pages, covering the Sino-Japanese war, hardly do more than scratch the surface of the contemporary Chinese scene. But Moment in Peking, far superior to Author Lin's whimsical The Importance of Living, may well become the classic background novel of modern China...
Against a background of the broken-body horror of civilian bombings in the Chinese war, a convincing psychological problem is finally resolved. This is the substance of "Disputed Passage," a Paramount picture patterned on Lloyd C. Douglas's best seller which seems to have imbibed much of the spirit of the original...
...territory. His "Flight of a Bumble Bee" is often done so fast that it gets done about two seconds before the people at end of the hall have begun to hear it. Drummer Buddy Schutz and trombonist Don Matteson are two of the best. Besides having a marvelous classical background, one of tenor saxman Herby Haymer's joys in life is to work in things like "Hymn to the Sun" in arrangements of "Liza"--also making faces that only a mother could love or a jitterbug appreciate...
...College Boards, he will have one year to break away from the repetition of French verb forms and reach out into the rich literature of the language. His preparation for college might consist, not of learning dates in American History, but in coordinating the social, economic and historical background of the field...