Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place where these records are reviewed save in the booklets of the publishers themselves. There are many very beautiful recordings being made with entire symphonies under the new processes of electrical recording, and some of the work is so fine, that I believe it would be a distinct help to your readers to review the better class of new records...
...Soviet authorities, with the help of the American Near East Relief committee, are performing marvels. There is no disorder, no looting. Soldiers carry out police duties. An open-air city is being rapidly organized. There is a continuous supply of food. On the hillside 400 injured are being attended in tents. An operation room is working day and night. There Dr. Walter Sisson of Wauseon, Ohio, has already performed 130 operations by candle light, since the electric plant is in ruins. The population is full of courage and hope...
...that until we can have the necessary equipment of an especially constructed stage, no progress can be made. . . . The necessary stage arrangements for sinking the orchestra to a lower level. . . and invisible, do not exist in present concert halls. . . . This is the ideal I am working for. Will anyone help me to attain...
...week ran -it, but no Morris Gest, or other enterprising producer, no Otto Kahn or other Maecenas, not even Patron Idea-man Edward W. Bok came forward to help Dr. Stokowski. People of the maddeningly practical turn of mind suggested that the ardent artist persuade his audiences to close the"ir eyes...
...will pass over the Civil War, though I ought to explain what a big help my grandfather, Corp. Ephraim Forecast, was to General Grant. After the war, Ephraim, always quick to see an industrial opportunity, realized there was a fine opening for a man who could sign checks in a bold, clear hand. He learned to sign a great many different names--the Forecasts have always been of money at it. He alternated this work with several ventures in the stone-breaking business, in which he handled some big government contracts. He died in Ossining...