Word: way
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legato (smooth) style, rather than a staccato (jerky) style. How many times have you seen "Jazz is the result of playing melodies in short, heavily accented and staccato phrases." . . . That's like defining an automobile as a stagecoach. The definition and the symphony men's idea of jazz are 'way behind the times...
...Every year a growing percentage of students look for work to help pay expenses. Every year almost as may men haunt the Student Employment Office unsuccessfully as apply for jobs and obtain them. It should become more and more possible for brilliant men of small means to earn their way at Harvard...
...Nassau five opened its E.L.L. season against the Big Red, and is batting 1.000 thus far. By denting Cornell, the Tigers not only helped themselves to top honors, but broke a three-way tie between Yale, Dartmouth, and Cornell, all of whom had split leading laurels previous to the Princeton...
...University in 1928 which made possible the establishment of the seven Houses, a more satisfactory environment has been provided for carrying on the educational and social activities of the upperclassmen, the disintegration which threatened the College has been prevented, and what Professor Morrison has so aptly called 'the collegiate way of living' has been restored...
...before bailing a personable shoplifter out of jail or taking her home to Indiana for Christmas. This improbable beginning, which trade-paper commentators call the picture's "distinctly unique premise," launches a tearful story that rambles through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and back to New York by way of Canada. Flattened rather than broadened by so much travel, it winds up as improbably as it started...