Word: conducted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...including 700 prisoners) and the loss of almost all their remaining toeholds in Palestine. Faluja, the one Egyptian pocket left within Israeli-held territory, had become a joke in Tel Aviv. Cracked cocky Israelis (who were being pressed for higher taxes and war loan contributions) : "We must turn the conduct of the war over to Finance Minister Kaplan-he knows how to empty pockets...
...help keep the clinic going, he advertised, and that resulted in his being expelled in 1930 from the American Medical Association and the Chicago Medical Society, for "unethical" conduct. Organized medicine, Schmidt retorted, was fighting his plan for low-cost medical care. He was given a clean bill of professional health by half a dozen other medical societies, by Northwestern which kept him on the faculty, and by St. Luke's Hospital, where he was senior attending urologist. Today, he is generally credited with having fathered the laws for premarital and prenatal tests for syphilis...
World-famed German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler was worried. Since war's end he had conducted orchestras in Britain and Switzerland, but the bid from Chicago was his first solid offer to conduct again...
...unwelcome because he was appointed first musician of the Reich by Hitler, although he has [since] been cleared by the denazification courts . . ." But Furtwangler was told there was "no need to worry." In Vienna, the gaunt, 62-year-old conductor announced the deal himself: he would conduct for eight weeks at a sum neither he nor Chicago would reveal...
...School will conduct its summer session in three European cities, with three groups of 70 students spending two weeks each in an English industrial city, in Paris, and in Aunecy, France. The program includes short expeditions all over Europe...