Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Greece's Primate Archbishop Spyridon climbed the same hill to conduct vesper services and speak in commemoration of St. Paul's declaration. Not much of Christian Athens turned out for the occasion with King Paul, Queen Frederika, Prime Minister Venizelos and the diplomatic corps. But 200-odd pilgrims from 57 Christian denominations and a score of countries listened and were moved. Said Episcopal Bishop Lauriston Livingston Scaife of Western New York, afterwards: "Chills went up and down my spine...
...orchestra's planned appearance was canceled when the Dutch festival officials were unable to provide funds for the trip. Some of the group's members did come over later, however, and gave one morning concert (which Britten did not conduct...
...going to change the euphonious and mouth-filling "pusillanimously cries for quarter" as it has stood in the Articles for the Government of the Navy (better known as "Rocks and Shoals") since the days of John Paul Jones, to the puny, emasculated, bilgewater phrase, "guilty of cowardly conduct" [TIME, June 11]. By Gad, Sir! That's going...
...teachers' colleges ... [which] now completely dominate public education . . . The critics claim that under the aegis of these institutions . . . common standards of learning are being abandoned, the standards being adjusted to the supposed interests and abilities of the students; that discipline, in the sense of both control of conduct and the process of directed training, is frowned upon as coercive and damaging to the personalities of students. In short, the critics say that under the impact of modern education, the schools are turning out an inferior product...
...General's proposals and conduct were attacked by the next witness, who said all but one of the following...