Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan last week alert listeners at a Philadelphia Orchestra concert noticed that in the Bach Toccata and Fuge the basses had a new, if perhaps unneeded, sonority and strength. They had previously speculated about a strange black cabinet which stood in the orchestra. A few of the curious investigated afterward, discovered that the cabinet was a variety of the Theremin ether-wave instrument (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928, et seq.) being used as a regular, recognized member of the orchestra. The new instrument was made especially for Conductor Leopold Stokowski, called a Thereminophone and differed from the better known RCA Theremin...
...pottery-making and weaving were made possible by this absolute lack of self-consciousness. The greatest difficulty coincident with taking these pictures as well as films of other primitive peoples was found in handling the great numbers of spectators who gathered. The operator had to be on the alert for moving shadows on the camera's field of vision. Among people less stolid than the Berbers, the forming of an audience had to be prevented in order to help the subjects overcome their feeling of self-consciousness...
...Buffalo. studied medicine at McGill, took advanced instruction at Johns Hopkins and Manhattan Presbyterian Hospital, taught therapeutics after the War at the University of Edinburgh. At Edinburgh he received his LL. D. His service with the Canadian Expeditionary force brought him his Lieutenant-Colonelcy. Colleagues praise him as an alert learner, a learned instructor...
...Captain Barrett, steady and alert tackle, who, after a shaky start, proved by his work in the Michigan game that he is to be considered along with the best tackles that the East can claim. He closes his Harvard football career this afternoon when he leads the Crimson for the last time this year...
...Palace after his long convalescence at the rustic royal estate of Sandringham. At spick-and-span King's Cross Station a long red carpet had been spread. Baron Byng of Vimy stood stiff and medal-spangled at one end. As Chief of London's Police he was alert and anxious. This time) the route which Royalty would take to the Palace had not been kept secret, as is usual. If there were anyone in England with a grudge against the King, now was his chance...