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Style is ultimately national. Indeed, Mr. Williams maintains that if a country is ever to produce a music which is really great, it must seek in the raw materials of its own musical spirit. With this thesis as a basis, he attempts to show how the great composers of all ages have found their ultimate inspiration in the folk songs of their own native lands, in those snatches of melody which have become the common property of their people. Thus Bach himself was able to produce his peerless fugues only because there had preceded him generations of smaller composers under...
...body had little chance of living. If he survived the shock, he would lose so much water through his skinless flesh that his blood would be unable to get rid of waste matter. If toxemia did not kill him, he would probably die of external infection contracted through his raw flesh...
...Cummings' old firm, and other Baush attorneys, once again sought to prove two stock charges: 1) that Aluminum tried to monopolize interstate trade in virgin aluminum through a price agreement with foreign importers of the metal; 2) that by taking enormous profits from the sale of raw aluminum it was able to undersell competitors on fabricated aluminum products. Forced to pay Aluminum's price for virgin ingots on the one hand and to compete with it in finished products on the other, Baush was caught in a "squeeze" which, according to counsel, had cost the company...
...white, nonmetallic mineral is gypsum. It has been used as a building material throughout history. In raw form its principal use is as a retarder in cement, preventing it from setting too rapidly. It is also in wide industrial demand as a flux in smelting, as ''mineral white" or "terra alba'' in the paper, textile and paint trades. Blackboard chalk is raw, powdered gypsum molded with a binding substance. Pure gypsum is alabaster...
...most furtive, Governor Martin Mutschmann of Saxony emotionally declared: "In the dark period when the whole world beset us, the Führer showed the German people the road to the light. He gave this people confidence and created possibilities for work without having to make use of the raw-material resources still dominated by the Jews. Today we already see the road opening itself to the goal that excludes the Jewish world trader. We thereby get him at his touchiest spot...