Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reischauer noted that it is careless to assume that the communists have gained permanent power in China. He pointed out that 15 years ago the Kuomintang government also looked strong...
Despite his great popularity, Munch is a very modest man very much aware of his own defects. Once many years ago, when Toscanini was conducting a French orchestra usually conducted by Munch, he unobtrusively took a seat in the first violins and played with the orchestra to learn how Toscanini gets his effects...
...well off the podium. He is an highly civilized man, deeply interested in painting and craft. Walter Hendl, assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic and newly-appointed conductor of the Dallas Symphony likes to tell about the time Munch came to visit him at his home three years ago. He arrived with a bouquet of roses for Mrs. Hendl, and then proceeded to spend the rest of the evening teaching Hendl different kinds of solitaire which he uses when traveling. Hendl had a wonderful evening, but when it was over, his house was completely bare of food and liquor...
...orators, J. Phillip Bahn '49, Peter H. Clayton '50, Robert W. Kratz '50, Arthur W. Purcell '50, John H. Sutter '51, and Melvin L. Zurier '50, president of the Debate Council, were picked in a preliminary competition two weeks ago...
...first atom bomb. The observatories are equipped with spectrohelioscopes-- astronomical X-ray machines that penetrate to the inner layers of the sun--and with coronoscopes, which blot out the sun like an eclipse, so that the other corona can be watched. Menzel went west a few months ago to spend all his time at the solar stations, on the Astronomy Department's biggest project...