Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sales. Most of them have not known anything like it in recent years. Last year, one 63-year-old painter, who had seldom sold a painting, sold $700 worth in one day. Stunned, he announced he was "now going to paint with all the fire Toscanini uses to conduct," rushed home, dropped dead...
...London: "His Majesty's Government . . . recognize the French Committee . . . as a body qualified to ensure the conduct of the French effort in the war within the framework of inter-Allied cooperation." The Generals: "sincere satisfaction...
...quite some time we have been meaning to unburden ourselves on the subject of calisthenics. Despite the inconvenience of early rising and physical exertion, calisthenics unquestionably are an asset. And the current practice of allowing each class to conduct its own program has more in its favor than against...
...furnished figures to spur the Catholic drys in their work: predominant among arrested last year were 18-year-old boys & girls; there was a 39% increase in the women arrested for drunkenness; a 69% increase in women arrested for disorderly conduct; many teen-age boys working in factories with older men have taken to the bottle...
When the music-loving Milanese got the news of Mussolini's downfall, they promptly demonstrated before La Scala Opera House, loudly cried "Toscanini must open the new opera season" (TIME, Aug. 9). For twelve years Maestro Toscanini, most famous of all Italian antiFascists, had refused to conduct in Italy. Under his leadership (off & on from 1898 to 1925), La Scala had become a sort of Vatican of Italian opera, had never sounded the same since he left. Last week history put a period to Milanese hopes: the Italian Government reported that La Scala Opera House had been destroyed...