Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zionism and Palestine's private little surge of prosperity (TIME, Dec. 10), tourism is also on the upgrade. But if intelligent exploitation has brought a golf course to Galilee and good cocktails to the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, it has not yet produced any change in the conduct of the Holy Land's traditional attractions, Biblical sites. This fact profoundly depressed Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of The Christian Century, visiting Palestine on a cruise last month. Last week his weekly published his views on the "organized exploitation . . . the charlatanry of the organized exhibition of sacred things...
...94th season because of its $500,000 drive last year. Arturo Toscanini will return to direct ten weeks out of the 30-week season. Towering Otto Klemperer. by far the most successful of the other conductors engaged this past season by the Symphony Society, will conduct for 14 weeks, opening the season...
...Minneapolis & St. Paul, socialites worked hard & long to get pledges of some $60,000 for another season under popular Conductor Eugene Ormandy. Philadelphians rubbed their hands with satisfaction knowing that fair-haired Leopold Stokowski would definitely return for twelve weeks next season to conduct "our eloquent and unique orchestra." But this year's deficit was nearly $250,000. In an effort to avert a similar deficit next season, new Manager Alfred Reginald Allen announced that next season's subscriptions would be offered on an installment plan. 20% down, the rest payable in eight monthly installments. Whether...
...assessed property, the subsidy will be administered by the City Art Commission and the Musical Association. The Association will provide $35,000 more to guarantee at least a 16-week season. Neither Issai Dobrowen nor popular Alfred Hertz is likely to conduct...
...same time, mere sized is no excuse for the continuance of evils which have been so pointedly indicated. That elementary courses in several departments should have drawn such fire is ample proof that drastic changes in their conduct is the crying need of present-day Harvard. An elementary course is ostensibly an introduction to a field of knowledge in which a man may or may not have had slight preparation. In the event he has not, his entire attitude towards that field, indeed, the extent to which it may serve to broaden his horizon, may depend...