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Word: bassed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Koussevitzky's Double-bass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Unison | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...young Russian, no money in his pocket, trudged up the steps of the Moscow Conservatory and asked for a scholarship. Scholarships were scarce, they told him. There was just one left?and that for the double-bass. The boy hesitated, turned as if to go and then came back, asked if they would teach him the double-bass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Unison | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Twenty years ago there was no greater contrabassist in all Europe than Serge Koussevitzky but he outgrew even that colossal instrument, became a conductor. Not until last year did he gather his admiring Bostonians around him and show them what he used to do with the double-bass. Boston rhapsodized but Manhattan waited to form her own judgment. In Boston King Koussevitzky can do no wrong. Neither could he last week in Manhattan. Of his first double-bass recital there, Critic Lawrence Oilman wrote in part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Unison | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...undergraduate days, Parson Faunce was undistinguished. No gridiron hero he, no baseball, track, basketball contender. But he sang bass in the Glee Club. And as his share of athletic glory, he rubbed the tired biceps of his famed roommate, Southpaw Pitcher Richmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fatince Out | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...present the orchestra will be composed of a plano, first and second dolin, 'cello, double bass, and clarinet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW ORCHESTRA FORMED TO SUPPLY EMPLOYMENT | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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