Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What did he intend to do? "I did a lot of traveling around the country last fall," he said. "I may even get on the train again and make another tour around the country. If I get on that train, I'm going to tell the people how their Government is getting along-and I know how to tell them...
...work of the program. At times, particularly in the trio of the scherzo, the performance was as fine as I have heard. Any objection about the dominance of the brass was overruled by its ability. From my point of view, Bloch's Concerto Grosso was the tour de force of the evening. The strings joined together with such power an assurance that I truly regretted the omission of the third movement. The piano part is chiefly one of doubling. This was unfortunate last night, for it gave the audience no chance to appreciate Karl Kohn's superb playing...
Homework. In Tyler, Tex., the National Board of Fire Underwriters finished a three-week inspection tour of the city, pointed out that the main fire station was a firetrap...
...University of Kentucky has its own special brand of Southern hospitality. When visiting basketball squads arrive in Lexington, they get full red-carpet treatment (which often includes a tour of nearby horse farms). Then, like condemned men whose last hours on earth have been made easier, the visiting athletes are led off to the gym-and the execution...
Gilmour emphasized that the printing of more non-fiction articles represents an "expansion, and not a change of policy." The magazine, he said, does not seek to become "either a socially conscious publication or a political tour de force." The editors hope to print articles by undergraduates representing divergent points of view on many subjects...