Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...States Navy will begin occupation of the Yard for the duration, when 500 Radio Communications officers commandeer its northern portion about June 15. Official University announcement of the extensive plan came yesterday, climaxing six weeks of negotiations and putting an end to popular rumor as to the Yard's fate...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, in F Minor (NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Victor; 10 sides). An unorthodox, exciting reading of the famed Russian's "Fate" Symphony, in which Stokowski uses his fluid-drive conducting, disturbing to conservative musicians, fascinating to most ears...
Only to the uninitiated, the "icebergs," who let the balls roll undirected about the board, is pinball a game of luck. True pinsters all swear that skill alone controls the boards. Most of the pin language, however, suggests that fate does take a hand in the proceedings. For example, when a pinster triumphs and wins free games, "fees," spectators race about in a mystic trance shouting "Pinball," a call as rousing to Bow Street as Rheinhardt is to the Yard. But bewailing bad luck takes up much more space in the pinball dictionary. A streak of poor playing is described...
...signed by 1,150 undergraduates yesterday. The petition, addressed to President Roosevelt, stated, "Realizing that the heart of the Axis lies in Hitler Germany, and that the "turtle policy" can only lead to disaster, we, the undersigned students of Harvard University, in this critical period, which may determine the fate of the United States, wish to reaffirm our complete support of your policy of carrying the war to the enemy, making every sacrifice and bending every effort to ensure the opening of a second front...
...something or other, but by their choice they usually distinguish whatever symphonic music they intend to massacre as having unusual structural or melodic strength, and the Fifth is no exception. respect for the marvelous clarity and controlled exuberance of this symphony has out ridden many interpretative storms from the "Fate-knocking-on-the-door" theorists' down to the present-day "Victory symphony" campaign (based on the rhythm of the first four notes), and will probably survive many more. The recent Columbia recording of the Fifth is the most satisfactory to date, Bruno Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic giving...