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...open end, blew. A low, sepulchral reverberation grumbled up the pipe. "The natural frequency of the pipe when blown into by mouth was about 161-that is, three octaves below the keynote of the scale previously indicated," observed Sir Richard. Evidently, "the wind was playing on the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th overtones of the pipe, and the melody was being produced by the rapid fluctuations of wind-pressure." The mystery and his solution make Sir Richard "wonder whether such an effect can ever have occurred in Nature-a broken bamboo stem, for example, partially obstructed at its windward...
...Wednesday morning Tass, the official Soviet news agency, tersely announced: "Death came to Comrade Nadezhda Alliluieva on the night between the 8th...
...wish to break up term with a celebration. At the close of the bicentennial exercises in the Yard, on the motion of Josiah Quincy of the Class of 1821, it was voted, "that this assembly of the Alumni be adjourned to meet at this place on the 8th of September...
...round dent in the side of the Walker Cup. It was a reminder of the only match that went to England this year, the one between George Voigt and Leonard Crawley, a Dunfrieshire. schoolmaster better known in England for his cricket than his golf. Crawley's iron on the :8th overshot the green and bounced against the Cup which, with its bright silver handles sticking out like donkey's ears, was standing on the clubhouse lawn...
...Freshman lineup was: Cadman, f.b., Steinburg, r.w., Sweeney, A. R., r.w., Cogswell, c.3-4., Tyng, l.w., Hoguet, s5-8th, Barton, f5-8th, Sweeney, C. E. s.h., Fields, w.f., Creelman, f., Johnson, f., Houston, f., Thorburn, f., Rider, f., Meyer, f., Ivers...