Word: returns
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Hitler's new attack, the Allies knew, would be no less terrific than his last. But this time there were probably 100,000 fewer trained German soldiers in the world, and perhaps three times as many wounded whose return through Germany to hospitals in Poland, Moravia and Austria aroused what the Allies believed were the German people's first serious misgivings. Official warnings in Berlin against overoptimism sent Boerse prices, which had boomed, crashing down...
...boosted a 19109-year-old cellist to the conductor's stand. He led his men through the whole opera (Aida) from memory. That performance, 54 years ago, was Conductor Arturo Toscanini's first. Last week white-haired Maestro Toscanini made ready to play his first return engagement in Rio. With the NBC Symphony he sailed on a South American tour, to play four concerts in Rio, two in Sao Paulo, eight in Buenos Aires, two in Montevideo...
...Executive Board of the Crimson Network announced last night that the Network will return to the air with the opening of the academic year next fall. The first broadcast has been tentatively set for the evening of September...
...down: most shoestring margin accounts, many small, outright holders, were already sold out. Furthermore, bargain hunters held off in the hope that stocks like Bethlehem Steel might soon be given away closer to 40 (when the $3.75 it has paid in the last twelve months would promise a 9.4% return) than to last week's closing price...
...have observed with sympathy your editorial efforts to resist the hysteria which is rising around you. Certainly you have not had much help from your elders, who have chosen to deny the realities of the last twenty years and to return to the exhilarating days of 1917. They have shown no hesitation in turning the classroom into a camp, the lecture hall into a recruiting station. That minority of the faculty which disagrees has been more scrupulous--too scrupulous, I think--and the time has come when we too should speak our minds. It may come as something...