Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conduct our business properly we have to know a great deal not only about the news but also about you. To find out about you-and about such sundry subjects as the paper and ink we use, the state of the nation's education, etc.-requires the same kind of painstaking research we do in order to authenticate the news we print...
Toscanini, voluntary exile from Italy since 1938, had flown to Italy at his own expense, to conduct six concerts without pay. He had obviously been homesick for his native land, but when he got to his family home in the green Po Valley, he soon seemed homesick for the U.S. He sighed to friends of New York's climate and California's wines, and whispered wistfully over a dish of spaghetti: "But you should taste the spaghetti in the United States...
...dinner meeting last night, the Student Council determined to conduct a poll Thursday to sound out undergraduate opinion on their proposal to send a College representative to the Student International Conference in Prague during August...
...extravagant 1920's when privately constructed organization buildings sprang up like dandelions: present facilities will have to do unless the University acts for all groups. Unfortunately, present facilities are at best meagre. Six organizations, including the Freshman and Senior yearbooks, lack space and equipment with which to efficiently conduct their activities. At least eight other groups, among them the Band, Orchestra, and Glee Club, need desk and filing space as well as the assurance that a room will always be available for their meetings. Phillips Brooks House, which has been serving as a makeshift meeting center, is badly overcrowded...
...Malcolm MacDonald said: some day Great Britain could conceivably lose Canada as a member of the Empire, if she ever forces Canada to choose between the U.S. and Britain. If she wishes to avoid that loss, Britain had better recognize the toughness of Canadian-U.S. ties. Britain must "conduct her affairs so that Canada will never have to make the choice between . . . the United Kingdom and . . . the United States." Canada is under the influence of American thought and ideas, but she is still essentially British in instinct. Britain's job, said Malcolm MacDonald is to keep Canada that...