Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scope. Under the general direction of its London headquarters, the Army is fighting in 61 countries. Its personnel numbers nearly 85,000 officers and men, not including 28,150 brass bandsmen. The Army's morale is fed by 80 periodicals in 35 languages; and its annual victories over Sin range from 225,000 to 275,000.† Its financial resources are not correspondingly great. The Eastern territorial division of the American Army, for example, lists 18 millions of assets against seven of liabilities; its headquarters building in the wholesale district of Manhattan represents 15 of the 18 millions...
...Richmond sighted two specks and ordered his ship to belch black smoke as a guiding signal. As the planes flew overhead and down to the beflagged moorings in Ice Tickle, the Richmond's siren shrieked a welcome. On a cliff overlooking the mooring place was fixed a brass plate, made on the Richmond, already engraved: "American aviators completed world flight, Aug. 31, 1924." The trip was not "complete," having started from Santa Monica, Cal. But the fliers were back in North American waters, 5 months and 14 days after leaving them...
...bass in the Moscow Imperial Opera. He rose to become a conductor and toured Europe with his orchestra. Revolt he has always accepted; even Revolution, with red flags and black drums, did not stop his music. He gave concerts in deserted places, when it was so cold that the brass players had to wear mittens...
...radio whenever atmospheric conditions are such that steadiness of transmission and freedom from interference can be assured. This, they declare, has been fully demonstrated. The Belin machine, however, differs from the Tel. & Tel. machine. The original record from which Belin transmits his pictures must be etched upon a brass cylinder. The Telephone Company's process sends from ordinary photographic films and produces a similar film at the receiving end. A comparison of the merits of the French and American methods is impossible, since neither has yet had extensive public...
Strewn along the banks and across the bridges were the assembled multitudes-old Yale and Harvard graduates, young graduates, undergraduates, pretty girls wearing the colors of their favorites, all with lusty voices. Somewhere a big brass band was crashing out Boola Boola. Somewhere else a great shout went up. The race had begun...