Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misplaced italics, some misunderstanding resulted from last Friday's note on residence privileges for next semester. Married men will positively live off the station, and single men may also be permitted...
...Just a note of appreciation for your very generous write-up about me in the May 31 issue. Naturally I was pleased...
...with steadily increasing concern that I note the continuance of abysmal ignorance concerning "what the war is all about" among my fellow members of the Army. This lack of understanding may not hinder our winning of the war, but it will most certainly put the skids under our winning of the peace if we don't look out. If, as seems to be the case, 99% of our soldiers have nothing better in mind than to "get the hell home as fast as possible" after the war, and forget the rest of the world forever, we will have...
...Fanfare, a French word of possible Moorish derivation, is allied to the Elizabethan stage directions sennet (also senet, sennate, cynet, signet, signate) and tucket, both indicating musical flourishes. There are no musical samples extant of sennets and tuckets. Sennet may have derived from "seven," perhaps meant a seven-note trumpet call. Tucket most probably stems from the Italian toccata (meaning a touch), and in all likelihood originally signified a drum sound...
...retired, dammit," says leonine old Amadeo Peter Giannini, chairman of the board of California's huge Bank of America, whenever reporters note that he still bosses his 478-branch colossus.-But 73-year-old A. P. still goes to work in his walnut-paneled San Francisco office every day; he has been "retiring" ever since he was 31, when he decided that he had earned enough in his stepfather's fruit and vegetable business to take life easy. Actually no one believes his beloved bank will be run by anyone else so long as A. P. can draw...