Word: hering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the first performance of Cesar Franck's Symphony in D Minor was given in Paris in 1889, critics were almost unanimously indignant. Sniffed one of them: "Why play this symphony here? Who is this M. Franck? A professor of Harmonium, I believe." Cesar Franck was then 67, an...
Replied Mason: "It would be a mistake to dignify Purdy by answering him. The records are here to see . . ." Mason was not at all upset because Purdy didn't think much of Argosy. Said he: "After all, he's only one of my million readers."
All the 61 German technicians gathered in the long, yellow-walled conference hall were talking about the same thing: Why did I come here? Said a heavy-machinery expert from Hamburg: "I want to know why a Christian of one faith feels like a stranger in the church of another...
Among those who spoke was Dr. Paul Koessler, a Roman Catholic professor. Said he: "I am here with the full consent of my Catholic bishop and other high dignitaries of my church. It is our purpose, just as it is that of the Evangelical Church which runs this splendid Akademie...
That was enough to start Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney off in full cry. He charged that in 1948 U.S. Steel had earned 10.2% on its total investment after taxes. Would Fairless challenge that figure? Fairless certainly would-but neither he nor Enders M. Voorhees...