Word: concorde
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...Eliot lost this battle and Daniel Chester French, sculptor of the "Minute Man" at Concord and "Lincoln" at Washington's Lincoln Memorial, took the commission. When, on the afternoon of the dedication, October 15, 1884, a Boston physician complained, "Mr. French, you've given John Harvard the legs of a consumptive," French was convinced he had done well. "Glad you noticed that," he replied. "He died of consumption when...
...started creating music and playing the piano at home in Concord, Calif, when he was four. Later he studied at Mills College in Oakland with Composer Darius Milhaud (who remembers him affectionately as a "good composer"), and worked at "counterpoint until it ran out of my ears." When listeners notice his Bach-like counterpoint and his big, polytonal chords, he says, "When I play jazz I am influenced by classical music. And when I compose I am influenced by jazz...
...prisoners still held by the Russians, 4) the abolition of war toys throughout the world. Said Fellowship President Dr. Gunapala Malalasekera of Ceylon: "We earnestly call upon the world's leaders . . . quickly to pay heed to the teaching of Sakyamuni,* so as to attain a world of selfless concord...
...well some months before his first name was spelled "Oh." He was a member of my Class of 1900. he was also my table mate; for a year we ate mutton together at Table 6 in Memorial Hall. Among other 1900 men at the Table was Ralph Kent, of Concord, New Hampshire, who was as long as Rinehart was squat. They roamed the Yard together, a sort of Harvard "Mutt and Jeff...
...PAUL H. McCLANAHAN New Concord, Ohio...