Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second year of publication), when 172 copies were sold in Canada. In 1928 circulation had reached 1,000; in 1936, 9,000; today it is 108,000. These subscribers and newsstand buyers get their own edition, TIME Canadian, which is the same as TIME'S U.S. edition except for a maple leaf insigne on the cover, three full pages of Canadian news, and its own advertising directed to the Canadian market...
...filthy condition and overcrowded . . . Elli said that 18 of the prisoners with her died in one day . . . The women were classified according to their capacity to work . . . They were put in four groups . . . Those in the fourth group, called O.K. (ohne Kraft-without strength), were unfit for anything except cleaning and other chores in the camp...
...Masters have squeezed hard and taken in 56.7 percent of the freshman class, several percent higher than what was expected. They have also admitted every upperclassman except 25 who had bad marks, applied late, wouldn't leave their roommates, or wouldn't accept the House offered...
...race itself will not involve too much that is new. Ideally, it will follow exactly the same pattern as has been practiced for weeks in time-trials. There is not much that can be done in the last hour except to sweat out the starting time...
...sings along with the strings as loud if not louder than Toscanini does. He shushes for pianissimos, exhorts for fortissimes. Sometimes he depicts the music physically, but where other conductors often merely imitate the motions of a violin bow or a cymbal, (something which has no value for anyone except the audience) Munch attempts to portray the spirit of the interpretation he is seeking (something which can be of considerable value to the musicians as well as to the audience...