Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrived in Italy for a visit last spring. He had slipped quietly in on a rehearsal in Milan, where his friend Violinist Nathan Milstein was rehearsing the Brahms Violin Concerto with the La Scala orchestra, and had been so impressed with the work of its Conductor Cantelli that he came back for a second time, then for the concert. Toscanini decided that Guido had been born to conduct...
China-born Spencer Moosa had not covered the Chinese war since 1931 without learning a few things about censors. Last week the knowledge came in handy. When the first Chinese Communist shells exploded in Peiping, Associated Press Correspondent Moosa tried to tell the world. The Nationalist censor said no. So Old China Hand Moosa banged out a furious message to the A.P. explaining why he couldn't report that Peiping was under bombardment. The censor passed it-and Moosa had his beat. Excerpts...
...November. President Ashby, a football fan, declared a holiday to celebrate. The Smith group of teachers and their student followers disdainfully held classes anyway. Later, in a speech to Detroit alumni, President Ashby remarked that most of the student troublemakers in the uproar over the sacking of Akeley came from one race and one locality. The S.A.C.s decided that he was referring to Olivet's Jewish students from New York, demanded at a mass meeting what he meant by "race." "Why, the human race," said Ashby inconclusively, and would say no more...
...Listen Pope, 39, who has taught social ethics there since 1938. His father was a North Carolina banker who, says Pope, "knew there were some things going on in the world of business, finance and industry which were hard to square with the New Testament." When son Listen came home from Duke University in 1929 with a Phi Beta Kappa key and an urge to study Christian sociology instead of investment banking, his father listened sympathetically...
When Hitler came to power, Wurm quickly became an outspoken defender of his church. So strong was his position that in 1934, after he had repeatedly criticized the Nazi regime, he was placed under only a mild house arrest. But the farmers and craftsmen of Württemberg, who knew his firm handshake and his practice of answering his own doorbell, staged an angry demonstration, demanding that Bishop Wurm be released. He was. Although he continued his fight against the Nazis, they never bothered him again...