Word: empted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last August, after 20-year-old Yehudi Menuhin announced he would give Robert Schumann's "lost" violin concerto its world premiere (TIME Aug. 23), the German Government announced it would pre-empt the initial hearing for its official anniversary Reichskultürkammer in Berlin. In Richmond, Va. last fortnight, Violinist Menuhin listened to a short-wave broadcast of Aryan George Kulenkampff's interpretation of the concerto, praised the German as "a violinist of the first rank" regretted that "the edition played was not the original." Father Moshe Menuhin was less complacent: "It was Yehudi who discovered it. ... Kulenkampff...
...Indian Ocean side of the continent Sir Douglas Mawson and the Norwegians were studying the seas for whale and other marine life, and trying to pre-empt some of the shores for their countries. Both made nominal claim to short sectors...