Word: according
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Davison cabled the club's resignation from the Intercollegiate Glee Club on the grounds that the selections were "silly sentimental mush" and not in accord with the dignity of any college contest. Chief offender was the prize song, Horatio Parker's "The Lamp in the West...
This surprising accord was hammered out in eight days of talks in Cairo with white-bearded, wealthy Sir Abdel Rahman El Mahdi of Sudan.* They agreed that the Sudanese should elect a legislative assembly by year's end, and thereafter practice full home rule under the supervision of the British governor general. Then, within three years, by Dec. 31, 1955 at the latest, the 8,000,000 Sudanese are to vote again on whether they want to remain independent or join Egypt...
...play better, but there is more tension." Should a Danish player get "too relaxed," Orchestra President Bentzon "speaks like an older brother." By tradition, an aging player moves back to a rear desk, and eventually out (with a state pension) of his own accord...
...financially shaky Post. Fortunately, both Mayor Hynes and Milton E. Lord, director of the library, have resisted the Post's blasting. The elimination of books, and for that matter newspapers as well, should occur in one way only--by people refusing to read them of their own accord...
...efforts, they have taken pains to deny it in print. Perhaps, then, it is they who are capitalizing on Stevenson's sudden emergence to sell more books--books that were not originally planned for publication until some months hence. Or it may be that the authors, of their own accord, are simply trying to help their favorite candidate...