Word: amphion
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...Amphion, a promotion group for several local rock bands, put on a couple of concerts in the parks in the fall. Fleming took a job with Design Research to last the winter, and then went to Amphion in the spring to organize free concerts...
...Amphion's Lyre, the celebrated discourse Lucien Price gave to the Harvard Glee Club in 1945, concluded with the line. "Eternal life is not a duration; it is an intensity." Lucien Price earned eternal life...
...routine cruise to "show the flag," the British warships Amphion and Contest steamed into the harbor of Santa Ana Island in the southern Solomons (which are under a British protectorate). On the beach the Britons saw a strange flag flying from a pole-a yellow field with vertical black stripes. The Amphion's pidgin-English interpreter asked the truculent islanders grouped around the flagpole what the flag stood for. It stood, said the natives, for "Martin Lo"-pidgin English for Marxian law. Communism had arrived among the atolls...
...little distance, six white men were grouped around another flagpole, flying the Union Jack. They were Heinrich Kuper, a German-born, naturalized planter who had lived 30 years on Santa Ana, and his five sons. Kuper suggested that the Amphion fire some star shells into the air. Scared stiff, the followers of Martin Lo lit out for the jungle...
Fargo, N. Dak., made the proudest showing of any outside city. Fargo is the home of Mrs. John Alexander Jardine, the Federation's eager, grey-haired president. Fargo and its twin-city, Moorhead, Minn., contributed the week's lustiest singing. At Mrs. Jardine's suggestion the Amphion Chorus of 93 men traveled East. They represented 21 trades and professions, ranging from barbers and buttermakers to doctors and lawyers...