Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what is going on throughout the U.S. in church music. For the past decade, music directors and organists of big city parishes have been vigorously campaigning to throw out the oldtime Victorian anthems and Gospel hymns and substitute the works of the so-called "pure classicists" like Bach, Palestrina, Victoria and the modern imitators of their polyphonic styles. Most ministers and congregations are either indifferent or hostile to change. Volunteer smalltown choirs, unopposed by professionals, are still enthusiastically flatting their way through the complicated, sentimental standbys. And even in Manhattan-hotbed of the classicist movement...
Australia. The two most populous of the chief grain-producing states, Victoria and New South Wales, have had a drought, say oldtimers, more serious than the disastrous "dry of 1902." The Sydney Morning Herald reported: "Drought stretches almost to Sydney's back door. . . . Spring Creek stopped running for the first time since the white man came. Along the Fish and Campbell Rivers, which normally are fed by a 30-inch annual rainfall, vegetable growers are scooping holes in the dry beds of streams to get a little water...
...Plans are being laid to get shipping to transfer wheat from Western and South Australia to Victoria and New South Wales...
When he retires, McKeand will move to warm, lush West Coast Victoria, where he plans to devote the rest of his life to growing roses. Because his shoes will be hard to fill, the Government may ask him to postpone his retirement until...
Added to the Toronto-New York City flight were these new routes for Trans-Canada Air Lines: Halifax to Boston, Toronto to Cleveland, Toronto to Chicago, Port Arthur to Duluth, Victoria to Seattle, Whitehorse to Fairbanks. The new U.S. commercial routes: New York City (or Boston) to Quebec, New York City to Ottawa (or Montreal), Washington to Ottawa (or Montreal), Seattle to Whitehorse...