Word: nods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, in the interest of self-knowledge and with an approving nod from the Department of National Defense, Canada set out to look more closely at itself-particularly at the relatively unknown north. From Ottawa's Rockcliffe Airport, a Lancaster bomber, carrying cameras, thousands of feet of film and a crew of seven, took off for Churchill, in northern Manitoba. Other Royal Canadian Air Force detachments have been assigned to photograph Canada's uncharted wildernesses from the eastern slopes of the Rockies to the tundra wastes of the Northwest Territories...
...range of appreciations does not extend to his sister's works, nor to her enthusiasms. Their estrangement was known all over the Left Bank in the '20s, though one day as they passed on a Paris street, Gertrude so far forgot herself as to nod in recognition-and was then so overcome (so the story goes) that she wrote a poem beginning "She bowed to her brother...
...many young violinists who feel called, Isaac Stern was one of the chosen. He had faced the fearsome scrutiny of New York critics in a Town Hall recital like dozens of other ambitious youngsters every year, and unlike most, he had won the nod. Last week, short, chunky Isaac Stern was back in Manhattan to be the first soloist o'f the season with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in the an nual summer concerts in Lewisohn Sta dium. To his native gifts, which he would be the last to call genius, he had added the three...
...nod of approval came from the respective Class executives as the result of a proposal submitted jointly by the Album Committee chairmen, Richard A. Green '47 and J. Anthony Lewis '48, in behalf on their staffs...
House provisions for the feminine trade rank high, with Adams' "clean, orderly, pretty" ladies room receiving a special nod of approval. "Though this won't appear in my book," the fetching authoress added, "you might say that Radcliffe would appreciate more facilities around Harvard...