Word: strives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brahms) and felt the triumph of Revelation (Nun ist das Heil--Bach). We offer it as our opinion that in "Elegischer Gesang" (Beethoven) we heard the best and most delightful singing of the afternoon; here were best displayed those tricks of choral technique for which the choruses most diligently strive; here, too, was the most perfect balance between the chorus and orchestra...
...give it much more than his great name. Said he last week: "I feel that a great service can be done to the United States if their work can be coordinated. ... I believe so strongly in this that I want to unify the activities still further. ... I shall strive for even more teamwork, working together to help one another...
...Business should strive to secure larger volume and more stable profits instead of attempting to raise the price level. . . . A choice must be made between the retention of a considerable amount of competition . . . or a very large measure of Government control. If we have a recession again such as we had last September and October, there is no doubt that our rulers will ask for even more extensive powers...
...become a real pioneer. The outcome was the building of 200 miles of railroad ... the development of water power and paper mills on both sides of the river, the purchase of timber holdings in large amounts, and finally a total investment of $50,000,000. Why should I not strive to rehabilitate this organization which has been my life work?" Thus did the septuagenarian founder of big Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. lately write the unhappy holders of his defaulted bonds. But Founder Edward Wellington Backus was unhappier than his bondholders. Unable to refund a bond issue...
...modest. Instead he carried with him, first into the polite world of the art business, then into garrets, brothels and studios, the wild religious longings that never left him. His only friend was his younger brother Theo. Together, before they went out into the world, they swore "to strive all their lives only for good." Vincent's family was connected with the Dutch branch of Goupil et Cie., famous Paris art dealers, and both Vincent and Theo got jobs in the business. Theo did well from the start, but Vincent took it, like everything else, too hard. Fired from...