Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he got brilliant tone quality out of his musicians, but they did not share his enthusiasm for contemporary music. Three months ago the directors ordered him to conduct more familiar symphonies. Munch resigned. (He could afford to: his wife, a Swiss condensed-milk heiress, is a very wealthy woman...
...harpsichord went out when the piano came in. Nobody at the time seemed very sorry: the piano was easier to play, its notes carried further, and it had greater range of tone. But the harpsichord has made a startling comeback-thanks largely to one woman. There has probably been more harpsichord-playing in New York in the past year than any time since the days of George Washington. Last week Manhattan harpsichord fans, a serious-minded lot, could hear either the master herself, stately, 67-year-old Wanda Landowska, or her most successful ex-pupil, Ralph Kirkpatrick...
...patient, a pregnant, 29-year-old Negro woman, had complained for months of severe pains in her abdomen. One day last week, as she approached full term, the pains got worse. In the osteopathic unit of Los Angeles County General Hospital, doctors X-rayed her, found to their astonishment that the uterus was only slightly enlarged. The baby was not there; it was thrashing about in the abdomen, its head under the liver and the rest of its body lodged against the stomach and intestines...
...bodies of plague victims, relatives reacted so fiercely (on the ground that cremation would destroy the souls of the deceased) that the Government withdrew its order. Millions of Chinese women still modestly refuse to submit to a doctor's examination; instead, they keep handy a "medicine woman"-a small ivory nude on which they point out the site of their pains. Medical fads & fancies are prevalent even among China's upper classes; a current fad is "injections"-the substance injected is immaterial...
...woman's program with social significance...