Word: containing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earthenware tablet, long buried in the Middle Eastern section of the Prussian State Museum, has been found to contain the musical notation for a religious hymn. This notation has been deciphered by Dr. Kurt Sachs, Curator of the Collection of Instruments at the Berlin High School for Music. The tablet comes from ancient Assur, capital of Assyria, and was inscribed in cuneiform characters about the year 800 B. C. It contains three columns: The first is the mysterious music; the second, in archaic Sumerian, an account of the creation of Man from the blood of the gods; the third...
Show-Cases of the Opening season will contain a formidable array of nuggets found in the Hungarian fields...
...Biggest pipe organ in the world should be installed there. The largest "orchestral organ" in the world is soon to be assembled in the great Hollywood Bowl, a natural open-air amphitheatre. The largest pipe in this musical monster will be 64 feet long. This single pipe will contain as much lumber as is used in the construction of a fair-sized bungalow. It will give out the note "CCCC," three octaves deeper than the lowest "C" on a piano. This note has only 16 vibration per second-the lowest perceptible by the human ear. If blown by the powerful...
Both generalities have a magnificent dramatic sweep, and both contain elements of truth. Just why seventy-five per cent of all college students go to college is one of the eternal mysteries which high Heaven and Conan Doyle alone can solve. For the most part, it seems due to tradition, a sense of the irreducible social minima, and a praiseworthy spirit of noblesse oblige; or it may be a vague present satisfaction of future desires, a faint, presaging indication of that moral awakening which in the opinion of a prominent school of psychological thought the final development of the perfect...
...course, which will be laid out on the green within the cinder track, will contain five hurdle obstacles And one 12-foot water gap. The Olympic contestants on Saturday will make the circuit 13 times, in rounding out the 1500-metre distance, which is slightly less than one mile...