Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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test Run. Last week, in a run through the Lake Washington ship canal and across placid Lake Union, Inventor Ross put on a demonstration of his "underwater radar" that left Navy sonar experts stuttering with excitement. On his cathode-ray screen the observers could easily locate a submerged steel drum 1,200 ft. away, a garbage can at 900 ft., sand bars, dock pilings, fish nets and ropes...
...tune needed, said Librarian of Congress Luther Evans, is more military history. "As one of my colleagues at Columbia once said: 'In abandoning the drum-and-trumpet school of history, we adopted the bum-and-strumpet school...
...picture fails to drum up any real sense of menace. Even in his most villainous moments, Evans seems a smoothly agreeable chap, and Actress Barrymore, bravely enduring her ordeal, looks as if she could get up any time she wanted to and make mincemeat of every scoundrel in the house...
...exercise are open to the public and will be preceded by a business meeting of th chapter in Harvard Hall at 10 a. m. The members will then march to Sanders Theatre in a traditional procession, led by fife and drum...
...Here is a person who is serious,' " Pearl says. "Once I show them my dignified side, I can be as wild as I feel." When she got down to the "strength" and "fertility" dances, her thrusting, thumping power, matched to the savage beat of a hand-patted African drum, was wild enough to stand the customer's hair on end. It was all certified genuine: "Everything I do is consistent with what I saw in Africa - except for wearing a bra. I have to make that concession to our modern standards...