Word: background
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...background of the building itself is probably the most obscure of all Harvard buildings. It was acquired by purchase in October, 1896 from the estate of one G. L. Whitman as part of the Germanic Museum parcel. Located on a plot covering 8,253 square feet, the building included 15 rooms and two baths...
...Boston, Ivy directors will first accompany truckers on a week-long series of rides to Eastern cities, including New York, Portland, Maine, and Rochester, New York. The plans, said Schiffer, are still in preliminary stages, but the club has already decided to use full sound, including a musical background. Ivy still owns no sound equipment, however...
Those who felt they had profited intellectually in college said they had "learned to think critically," acquired "intellectual curiosity," "a thirst for knowledge," and "a rich background of information...
...background is a dream-invention: a single picture tube that glows in all colors simultaneously, but which will be "compatible" with the present-day black & white system. There have been many attempts to build such a tube, but none has succeeded so far. Many experts believe that color television should be postponed until such a tube, or something equally good, has been developed. To adopt either the CBS or the RCA system in the meantime, they argue, would be to freeze color television at a low level...
...reason for the zither dither: the catchy, twangy background music that British Cinema Director Carol Reed (Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol) had worked into his new smash hit, The Third Man. The picture demanded music appropriate to post-World War II Vienna, but Director Reed had made up his mind to avoid schmalzy, heavily orchestrated waltzes. In Vienna one night Reed listened to a wine-garden zitherist named Anton Karas, was fascinated by the jangling melancholy of his music...