Word: sergo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sergo Koussevitsky did a masterful job with his orchestra and chorus yesterday, and the soloists, Carol Brice, David Lloyd (tenor), James Pease (baritone), and Wesley Addy (speaker) were better than good. The Harvard Glee Club was at its best in voice and control for the occasion. Before the main event Dr. Koussevitzky and orchestra gave their customarily rigid performance of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, the first and last movements of which remain to this critic deserts of brisk but avid content...
...researches we outlined required the additional expenditure of several hundred thousand rubles. I went to Sergo Ordzhonikidze, who was chairman of the Supreme Economic Council, put the matter before him, and in ten minutes left his office with an order signed by him to assign the sum I had requested to the Institute. Once started, we have continued work on the atomic nucleus for 15 years as an essential part of our plan...