Word: basses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inventor is dark-goateed John W. Haussermann Jr., 32 (whose father, a wealthy Cincinnatian, owns three Philippine gold mines). The most commonly used solo instruments in concertos are the piano, violin and cello, and concertos have been written for other instruments: clarinet, horn, saxophone, even the double-bass. For the voice, composers have written vocalises (wordless songs), have included wordless voice parts in orchestral works, but hitherto have not essayed an out-&-out concerto...
Other Harvard racers were: Bill Apthcrpe, eleventh, Herb Sise '34, twelfth; John Burton, thirteenth; W Egelhoff 1G.B., fourteenth; Braley Cameron, fifteenth; Tom Cochrane, eighteenth; Fred Coolidge '41, twentieth; Herb Green '41, twenty-first; Roger Wilson, twenty-third; Streeter Bass '39, twenty-fourth; R. Cabot, twenty-seventh; Henry Bigelow, twenty-eighth; Joe Fitzpatrick, twenty-eighth; Al Morrison, thirtieth; Preble Motley, thirty-first; Jim Gamble, thirty-third; Finn Ferner, thirty-third; C. Coolidge, thirty-fifth; Bill La Croix, thirty-seventh; J. Bemis, thirty-ninth; and Bob Sturgis, fortieth...
...difficulties with Columbia, playing better than I've heard him in years. the two best sides, "World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" and the slow "Mood at Twilight," will probably be issued on the same record, and on each Goodman plays with all that old feeling. Al Morgan, the bass player on the occasion, who is now with Sabby Lewis at the Savoy in town, testifies to the chummy, intimate atmosphere which pervaded the session, with each player inspiring his neighbor. the records should be on sale within a couple of weeks, and Briggs and Briggs's stock deserves...
...Worked-out cotton fields, turned to pasture, will yield 149 Ib. of beef per acre. But if nearby streams are dammed with earth and the fields shallowly flooded, they will yield as much as 600 Ib. of catfish, bass or bream, at a much lower cost per acre. So announced the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station last week. Like fields, the ponds must be strewn with commercial fertilizer (100 Ib. per acre), so that aquatic plants will flourish...
...inspired by the policy of the Good Neighbor is the norm of international law on the American continent." This Good Neighbor diplomacy reached its peak at the Conference's concluding plenary session in Tiradentes Palace. Brazil's Aranha, scarcely able to control the excitement in his bass voice, announced to stomping, cheering crowds that Brazil, largest and strategically the most important of the South American countries had ". . . at 6 o'clock today broken her diplomatic and commercial relations with Germany, Italy and Japan." After settlement of the old boundary dispute with Peru Ecuador followed suit...