Word: retardations
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...young Toscanini, Verdi found a conductor he could trust. Before a performance of Verdi's Quattro Pezzi Sacri, Toscanini once called on him, told him that he felt a retard was needed in one passage of the Te Deum. When Verdi heard him play it, he patted him on the back, said: "Splendid! That is just how I heard it in my mind." "Why didn't you write it that way?" asked Toscanini. Said Verdi: "I was afraid it would be exaggerated." Said Giacomo Puccini of Toscanini, who had conducted the world premiere of his La Boheme: "Toscanini...
Molotov: "Another [U.S.] policy is to retard the rehabilitation of German industry. . . . This cannot go on much longer...
...them and were content to remain young. There was, he thinks, a more serene friendliness between boys & girls when sexuality was postponed in favor of romance. "Statisticians have yet to reckon the nerve strain in American life which comes from precocious attempts at maturity and painful struggles to retard middle...
...declared that the U.S. would "study" the demand on condition: 1) that the Soviets would agree to leave in Germany certain factories originally slated to be removed to Russia and take their reparations only from these factories; 2) that current production reparations must not increase occupation costs, or retard German self-support. Under these terms, Russia, which needs its reparations now, might not begin to receive payments for five years...
Calling the principles behind collective bargaining "more fundamental than any laws," W. Williard Wirtz '37, Chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board, yesterday told a meeting of the Law Forum in Langdell Court Room that the law has done much to retard progress towards a workable labor-management relationship...