Word: attends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...playing the piano. During the War, in spite of being blind in one eye, he was drafted for military service, set to playing the saxophone and the clarinet in a regimental band. Even then, at 22, Leo Sowerby was writing ambitious orchestral music. Conductor Frederick Stock invited him to attend the Chicago Symphony's performance of his Set of Four. He got leave to go but when he returned to the regiment the bandmaster reprimanded him roundly, told him he knew nothing about music anyhow. Later in France after he had done time washing dishes, peeling potatoes and cleaning...
...regret our inability to attend, for reasons you can guess. Though we must remain mute we believe you will hear the voice of 1,500,000 German veterans who want no more...
After their parade the veterans adjourned to the Disarmament Conference hall. Plump "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, president of the Disarmament Conference, was there, as was the League's Secretary-General Sir Eric Drummond. But the only disarmament delegate to attend was Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Eduard Benes. Because Adolf Hitler refused them passports, no German veterans were present. CIAMAC's President Maximilian Brandiesz of Austria read a message from Berlin...
...short, the CRIMSON business competition offers sound practical business experience to Harvard men while they are still in college. All Freshmen who wish to hear the details of this activity outlined more fully are urged to attend this meeting beginning promptly at 7.15 o'clock Monday night, April 11, at the CRIMSON building. No experience is necessary...
...That fellow over there, you mean. Oh, he blew in the other day from the Business School. Had a little temperature, and said he was all done in. Huh! Now look at him cramming for a four hour exam he can't attend. Lucky bum--he's got permission to dictate it to a nurse...