Word: chords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hamilton Silver Eagle-4-to-8 seat cabin monoplane, all metal; high wing tapering in chord and depth; short strut bracing to rectangular fuselage; pilot cabin under leading wing edge, glass-enclosed; passenger cabin goes back with windows to each seat, and wide doors on either side; radial motor...
...Please order a chord of wood for the furnice...
...excellent. Perhaps more than in anything else the fault is in tendency for the story to moralize, to proclaim too blatantly the some-what shopworn "I still believe in you" motif. Far be it from this reviewer to simply that that is not a good and even often necessary chord, but nevertheless it has always had the effect on him of inducing a slight shudder when it is blared forth upon the brasses...
...dead Little Corporal's heart from voracious rats. But Arthur was a sweet-faced choirboy, beloved mascot of his father's band, successful candidate for a Leipzig Mendelssohn scholarship. Returned to London, he wrote cantatas, oratorios, 56 hymns (among them Onward Christian Soldiers), and also popular lyrics (The Lost Chord), and operetta-burlesque (Cox and Box). Victoria smiled on him, the masses adored...
...class teams of the fall of 1925 were handicapped in practising and playing by an informality that was terrific to opponents, but of doubtful benefit to the men themselves. In 1926 Director of Athletics Bingham gave the opening chord of the athletics-for-all motif with the establishment of a class football squad, coached by former University players, thoroughly outfitted, and playing on fields of its own. Football can now be taken up at almost any time during the fall; an intensive grass drill as preliminary to each practice insures the newcomer against strain and the injuries of ill condition...