Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because a flautist cannot see his lips or the air coming from them, but none the less his lips must be properly shaped, his wind properly directed. A flautist does not blow through the flute, but across its mouthpiece to the opposite edge. The edge vibrates, sets the whole column of air in the flute vibrating. Flute tones are made by this vibrating air column, just as violin tones are made by a vibrating string. Their pitch, similarly, depends upon the length of the air column. If a flautist wants a high note, he shortens his air column by opening...
George Cushman, and Tom Campion were the other Crimson players who broke into the scoring column with one goal apiece while Junie Merriam, Ned Pickering and Jack Fuller scored for the Indians...
Sirs: Some one pulled your leg re John Stink, hermit Osage-(TIME, March 29). The atavistic old fellow has not just come down from his tree to claim $200,000. It's quite a story. Probably too long for publication in the Letters Column, but it will be interesting to your staff...
...yesterday there appeared a notice in the Official Notice Column that set English students on their...
...they can sell to competing publishers in a single city. Standard features a cheap encyclopedia. Into this they obligingly insert anything the buyer wishes to have appear. Thus the Philadelphia Inquirer is selling 200,000 volumes a week of the Standard American Encyclopedia whose A volume has a complimentary column-and-one-half biography of Publisher Moses Louis ("Moe") Annenberg. Hearst's New York Journal, selling the same encyclopedia, has in its volumes no word of Mr. Annenberg or his career, but it has got a nice item devoted to the word "neotrist,"† which they hired Lexicographer Charles...