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...Composer Bloch fervor has always been instinctive. When he was a youngster running about the shop of his clock merchant father in Geneva, he made a vow that he would become a composer. Unlike most little boys, who would have made the vow and let it go at that, Bloch wrote it out on a scrap of paper, buried it under a mound of stones, built a fire over it, and mumbled incantations while he watched the burning embers...
...might feel who fell, unwillingly, from the window of a high-up room and yet kept his consciousness. ... I don't know how it happened and I am wildly tempted to call fate some very ugly names, if I had not just taken a sacred vow never to use gutter words again...
...dons its equipment for the approaching battle the Harvard team will have one of three attitudes. It won't be sick with fear, naturally, but it may await the kick-off with confidence, quake at the thought of defeat, or vow never to yield...
...sent ahead from the south to try to stop the Japanese in Shantung. Shantung's Governor, famed General Han Fu-chu whom Japanese have been trying to win over by bribes, thus had to make up his mind last week, clarioned: "I urge all under my command to vow resistance to Japan until...
...sixth anniversary of the founding of the Spanish Republic was celebrated by Leftist Spain last week with many a fervent vow "to redouble labor for victory." To Spanish President Manuel Azaña came a cable of good wishes from Japan's Emperor Hirohito, indicating that Japan has no intention of recognizing the Insurgent regime of General Francisco Franco. Unperturbed, General Franco wiped the anniversary from the Rightist calendar, decreed a fiesta for May 2 to mark "the first triumphal year" of his revolt which began last July. The discrepancy of two months he overlooked in order to offset...