Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Copper and Brass Research Association has completed a survey on the building shortage in this country, of general interests to tenants, landlords, mortgage-holders. On Jan. 2, 1920, the shortage amounted to $10,750,000,000; and each year an additional amount of construction valued at sums starting at $3,000,000,000 and steadily increasing was likewise required to meet the normal growth of the country...
Specifically, Russia did not like the fact that the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Bear had taken magnetic observations in her territorial waters. It was also brought to his attention that upon a rock on Chukotsk Peninsula, in Emma Bay, Cape Pusino, Bering Strait, had been found a brass plate with the inscription "United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Magnetic Station. For information write Superintendent, Washington. For disturbing this mark, $250 fine or imprisonment...
Further information concerning the monster parade in Boston which the University contingent will join has been secured. Fourteen organizations, with a total of 12,000 members, will parade. There will be students from Boston College, Boston University and M. I. T. The blare of ten brass bands will vie with the yells of the marchers for supremacy in noise producing powers. The famous Whittall Huzzars of Worcester will march in full regalin, and each of the other delegations will have a distinctive uniform...
Journalists are like the unfortunate Englishman of American descent in George Ade's fable--"neither the one thing nor the other." Theirs is not a trade like brass-polishing or carpentering, which require long apprenticeships. The fact that any untrained man can become a good reporter within a very few months has made it difficult for journalism to rise to the rank of a profession. And where there is ease of entrance, there will be found many undesirable candidates. Mr. H. L. Menoken, in a burst of constructive criticism says that newspaper men must control the various schools of journalism...
...Koussevitzky Americans see a musician brought up upon Mozart, Beethovan, Wagner, Chopin, who ought, to their way of thinking, oppose jazz music in mortal combat. With Americans it is the rule that only those to whom the wall of saxophones, the blare of trombones, and the clash of brass are indigenous, can see in jazz anything but degenerate sensuality. Not so Koussevitzky. Without forsaking the classics, he calls jazz "good music". So pronounced became his modern tendencies that Moscow thought him too radical, and he left Russia. But he went, not to Paris, where he was indeed invited...