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...gunners win their medals by shooting the enemy out of the air. In a story released last week in Air Force (official service journal of the A.A.F.), the Army told how one gunner rang the gong by using his wits and the lore he had learned in radio school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Skeptic | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...Goodspeed: "If I can speak the languages of men and even of angels, but have no love, I am only a noisy gong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Testament Improved | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...those who may be slightly puzzled as to how this column qualifies as representative of the Specialists' Corner, I can only quote Ernest Hemingway (author of the well-known movie, "For Whom The Gong Chongs"): "The saloon must go... and I will take it with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GERMAN CLUB UNHIT BY WAR | 8/10/1943 | See Source »

...violin employed in Bowles' "The Wind Remains." This device consists of a piece of wood, strung with violin strings, but lacking the sound-box. The vibrations of the strings are electrically amplified through a loudspeaker system, producing a very full tone. Bowles' composition featured several other unusual instruments--Chinese gong, temple blocks, chimes, auto horn, and a milk bottle tapped with a key, but unlike many experiments in exotic instrumentation, contained a lot of sincere writing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC B0X | 8/6/1943 | See Source »

...Chinese-American student Helen Gong: Schweitzer improved wayward students' characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Incompetent? Drunk? | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

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