Word: drum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Drum, part owner of the local Y-V Fertilizer Corp., persuaded the town to run a sewer system and power line to some undeveloped property which he turned into a campground. It was such a success that Drum borrowed a copy of the Holiday Inns' franchise contract and set up a nationwide chain. Holiday Inns has followed KOA into the business, as have Gulf Oil and a pack of smaller companies...
Some statisticians charged that last year's lottery which used only one drum, had resulted in insufficient mixing of the capsules...
...composers today who has a distinctive, instantly identifiable style. His compositions stick to conservative harmonies, relying heavily on ostinato, and reveling in lush, big-scale orchestration. They are immensely colorful and oddly moving. And God Created Great Whales began with muttering string noises and a submarine roar on the drums, followed by leviathan trombones diving in and out of rushing violins. Finally the great cetaceans themselves appeared, via tape recording. They sang with an astounding range of tone and expressiveness-from a stratospheric wail that might have come from the throat of a 40-ton canary to the rumble...
...they're going to have Tom Eisenstadt march with the sword," he added. "Where is he going to get a sword unless he borrows one from the Don Juan Drum and Bugle Corps...
Dale B. Fink '71 an SDS spokesman denied that the door was broken under those cireumstances. He said that the Radical Arts Troupe was performing on the staircase at the time, and that as the Troupe sang one song, "the door was being used as a drum...