Word: braked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...previously considered nonmusical. He hopes some day to make use of electrical instruments capable of playing sliding tones, get any desired sounds in any desired rhythm. For the present, Percussionist Cage contents himself with "dragons' mouths," wood blocks, rice bowls hit with chopsticks, temple gongs, pipe lengths, secondhand brake drums, baby rattles, maracas, wind glass, thunder sheets, washboards, cowbells, "fin-gersnaps & footstomps," flower pots, güiro, sirens (for the use of which he had to get police permission), claves, police whistles, the jawbone...
...President Roosevelt." In Washington, Third-Termers said that Senator Ellender had acted on his own, that an uninstructed delegation from Louisiana was precisely what they wanted. But Little Bull's booing seemed to indicate that for politicos who are on the skids, Term III is useless as a brake...
Bliss scholarships and University scholarships to Ralph W. Brake, of Rocky Mount, N. C.; Engene S. Hurd, of Watersmeet, Mich.; and Howard A. Poat of Minneapolis, Minn...
...Railroads bought long-deferred modern equipment when traffic picked up last fall. Westinghouse Air Brake delivered these orders in 1940's first quarter, netted...
...fitted at the bottom with a wooden disk to prevent the pole from digging too deeply into the snow, appears in an illustration from a book published in 1664. Norwegian soldiers in 1820 and a California pioneer in 1854 all used a single, Jong pole, as much for a brake on a down-hill run as for support climbing...