Word: barres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such amateurs of the flute as Rockwell Kent and Charles Gates Dawes know how hard it is to play correctly. Great flautists like New York's Georges Barrère or Philadelphia's William Kincaid have taken years to perfect themselves. Flute technique is hard because a flautist cannot see his lips or the air coming from them, but none the less his lips must be properly shaped, his wind properly directed. A flautist does not blow through the flute, but across its mouthpiece to the opposite edge. The edge vibrates, sets the whole column...
With John McKelvey as editor-in-chief, the 54-page Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Harvard Law Review appeared in April 1887. Bound with the same drab olive paper which has been used ever since, the first issue featured an article by Harvard's James Barr Ames on Purchase for Value Without Notice, went to 300 subscribers. Just as Harvard's late great Christopher Columbus Langdell's methods of case study became the guide for all U. S. law schools,*the Harvard Law Review quickly became the prototype for law reviews. The Columbia Law Times appeared...
...game. The line-ups: DUNSTER (11) ADAMS (8) Briggs, 2b lf, Cavin Norman, p c, Howe Cummings, cf 2b, Hauck Ford, 3b p, Wiley Pamp, lf ss, Van Slyke Hunter, 1b 1b, Soden Flun, rf cf, Fletcher Blackwood, ss 3b, Mason George, c rf, Findley SUBS: Logan, cf Barr, lf Perry...
...Yalemen Mason & Garland was as pretty a crew of stock-jobbers and boiler-shop operators as ever hooked a widow, including Dave ("The Duke") Durbin, whose sales aids were white spats, a Japanese chauffeur and a Cadillac V16. One of the ablest was a handsome fellow named Walter M. Barr whose specialty was rich old ladies...
...hired last week to fly her personal plane U. S. Citizen Julius Barr, onetime air chauffeur to Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang who recently kidnapped her husband (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.). Modern Mme Chiang is expected to visit the U. S. soon, explain to Christian women's clubs about her Methodist husband's sore troubles as Dictator...