Word: solid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...kicks out of a good technician like Ray McKinley when he takes off for twenty minutes while Will Bradley and the boys just sit around and watch. But don't forget that when they start playing again, Ray is right in there driving the band along, giving them a solid rhythmic foundation that you just can't learn in an instruction book. In other words, you've just got to have it in you. Well, Buddy Rich and a lot of drummers like him haven't got it, so they try to make up for it by slamming their...
...pessimistic. In an article in the October issue of Foreign Affairs the noted economist states that "an economic bloc consisting of the United States and all the countries in areas A and B"-that is, all Latin American nations except the five southernmost ones-"would have a solid foundation in the economic self-interest of all the countries involved. If it should be deemed desirable to include this entire area within in a single customs union, no serious problems would arise." He winds up with the following significant statement: "We may conclude, then, that the area which is complementary...
...coming young American composers, has written lingering music for Shakespeare's songs, celebrating love and death with flute, oboe, harp, harpsichord, percussion and muted trumpet. The Bard, in his latest Broadway manifestation, has got all the breaks a playwright could wish. The audience's rewards are less solid...
...melodiousness, full of poignancy and melancholy, wailing of unfulfilled longings, futile suspirations, fugitive ecstacies, insuperable barriers, self-conscious revolt and perilous triumphs, rising to a crescendo of delirious abandon, then diminishing to a wistful despondency, whispering of a quandary of hopes, fears, sadness, hurt, chargrin, unrequited love, and confusion." Solid, Jackson...
Although there is no individual star to follow in the steps of the thirteen national championship winners which ex-coach Harry Cowles produced at Harvard during the 18 years since 1922, "a solid team with a lot of fighting spirit" is the classification in which Coach Jack Barnaby places the 1941 aggregation...