Word: vow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arte men wound up a staircase from the dressing rooms, bowed gravely, sat down on a platform under a basketball goal. They played Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms. They were applauded con brio. As the audience filed out, many were heard to praise the Pro Arte Quartet, and to vow that the 50? admission was cheap: the sponsors (the college and Watertown's Euterpe Club) could easily have charged $1.50. Next day, Newsman Clarence Wetter said in the Watertown Times: "It was an artistic triumph...
...executive council reaffirmed its vow to improve "wages and working conditions for labor," and win for labor its fair share of increased earnings. Set up by the council was a lobby to keep a watchful eye on Congress. Said C. I. O. President Philip Murray: "If foolhardy statesmen believe that they can impose restrictions on working men and women to stop their legitimate efforts to pursue their legal rights, then I say to those so-called statesmen that they are making a great mistake." (In short, C. I. O. labor was not going to give up its right to strike...
...spectacle of the last world war fitted me with horror. I came out of it with one conviction: we must at all costs avoid any renewal of such atrocities. . . . This is the vow I made, a solemn vow: "I swear I shall always do everything in my power to prevent the outbreak of another...
...musical compositions. Last week in San Francisco, at the word from Generalissimo Buck, ASCAP shock troops made a vigorous sortie. Their enemy was Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), formed by radio chains. Sooner than sign contracts to pay bigger fees for ASCAP tunes after next Jan. 1, the networks vow to use music from BMI, which by then will control 10,000 numbers. Melodious and wonderful was ASCAP's assault. At the San Francisco Fair, in its closing week, ASCAP gave two free concerts, the like of which the West Coast had never heard...
Brill, known in his Freshman year as "Brill the Barrel" and last year as "Liquid Lew," explained that he "took the vow" one Sunday morning early this summer. Advising the pledge for all his fellow students as a cure-all that really works, he pointed to himself as a staggering example: "Before I decided to follow Babson, what was I?" he asked. "A nobody. And now look at me: I'm chairman of the Brill-for-Babson club of Harvard University...