Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutted the unseemly conduct of Major Walter Elliot, publicity-courting Minister of Agriculture, who permitted himself to be carried to the premises of Birkbeck College last week by two students dressed...
...less, the board attempted a reconciliation with Stokowski. It asked him to return and conduct whatever concerts and operas he wished, implied that the "deep-lying differences" would not be insurmountable. Stokowski's friends felt that so great a conductor should have complete command. His critics felt that he was lacking in gratitude for all Philadelphia had done for him. Though the board issued no formal statement on the subject, the views of some of its members were reflected in the Philadelphia Record, partly owned by Samuel Pels (Fels-Xaptha Soap), one of the board's vice presidents...
...world's "highest-paid conductor" was enraged to find the Record boldly recording many of his earnings: "When he came to Philadelphia, he got $600 a concert. In 1922 he signed a contract for 10 years, to conduct 90 concerts a year at $800 a concert. . . . But after signing the 10-year contract, he began raising doubts each spring as to whether he would return in the fall, contract or no contract. So, each spring, the board, agreeing he was a great artist, gave him more money, despite the contract, until in 1929 he was getting $2,000 a concert...
Amid a turmoil of activity in the Fatigue Laboratory of the Business School, Ancel Keys, instructor in Biochemical Sciences, made last minute preparations yesterday for a 1935 expedition which he will lead into the mountains of Tibet to conduct a further study of the causes of fatigue...
...first-rate scandal. But last week it came dangerously close to it. Boiling with suppressed excitement, President Jonas Lie summoned newshawks to his studio, fed them cheese snaps & Scotch whiskey, and announced that for the first time in its existence the Academy had just expelled a member, "for conduct considered prejudicial to the Academy...