Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To those who know Adolf Busch, such musicianly zeal was no occasion for surprise. German by birth, Swiss by choice, sturdy, boyish Adolf Busch has long plied his art in the U.S., giving music performances that highlighted the music, not the performances. Busch prefers his music straight, as the composer...
The occasion of Morrison's wrath was an innocuous-looking cartoon whose bite was in its caption, "The price of petrol has been increased by one penny" (implying that British seamen were risking their lives to fatten the big corporations). As supporting evidence for his charge, Morrison quoted a...
House dances, dinners, and especially the traditional formal dinner on the occasion of President Eliot's birthday round out the social activities of the House along with many less formal gatherings.
There is Aimee, the selfish, ambitious new teacher who becomes principal of the school by marrying the nephew of the school board's head, and who forsakes Claudine just as she thought she had found someone in whom to confide; there is Miss Sergent, the former headmistress, whom Claudine detests...
Ferner and Meservey added color in the occasion when they both out-schussed Toni Matt., U.S. downhill champion, in the first run, goading him into tying the trail record of 2:17 in the second.