Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winters ago there arrived in the U. S. a Russian scientist, one Leon Sergeievitch Theremin (pronounced Termin), with an invention whereby he claimed music could be made with a wave of the hand. Had not strange tales of his "ether music" preceded him from Europe, doubtless few would have attended his demonstrations in Manhattan (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928). But many of the curious went. They saw a slender, tense person of some 30 years take his stand unaffectedly before an instrument resembling a radio set. Then he adjusted plugs and dials on the box (by which timbre was varied...
...Hackensack, N. J., one Willie Schaeffer, who calls himself "the strongest man," held two airplanes on ropes, one in each hand, and kept them down though they were roaring to get up. ¶ In Wiesbaden, Dr. Alexander Alekhine won his fourth straight game from E. D. Bogoljubow, needs only two games out of the required series of 30 to keep the world chess championship. Said he: "Even the most confirmed opponent of the contention that the game is threatened with death through draws, could not have hoped for such a development." Play will be continued next week at Heidelberg...
...expert who, like Whitehead, has had a hand in the movement responsible for replacing auction bridge with contract bridge as the standard social card-game, did not attend Whitehead's convention. He, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, one of the best bridge-players in the world, has written a book † on Bridge and brought a new word into the language, "vanderbilting." Briefly, and in popular terms, you vanderbilt when you bid one club as an indication that you have three quick tricks in your hand. Though the club bid indicates the three tricks, to bid it you do not need...
That balance plus the subscriptions collected in cash from the students on Registration day this fall make a total of $7,068.42 cash on hand. Although the exact total has not yet been ascertained, the money pledged but thus far unpaid is sufficient to bring the total over $12,000, from which figure the budget is calculated...
...much use of the volume as was desirable, because of its immense value. The publication of the facsimile edition will make the treasured notebook available for more general use, consequently increasing its practical value as a reference. It is a small volume, filled with verse written in the hand of the author...