Word: harps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harp is a development of the warrior's or hunter's bow with one tense string, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
They know that each spring, without fail, the harp seals (so called from their harplike back markings) swim to meet the Arctic ice floes, honeycomb them with blowholes, whelp near the holes in late February. In three weeks, the ravenous young cats weigh about 70 pounds, are prime young "whitecoats...
Paul White: Sea Chanty for Harp and Strings (Harpist Edna Phillips with string quintet, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Blow the Man Down, Tommy's Gone Forever and When Johnny Comes Down to Hilo saltily done. Performance: excellent...
...corn was shaping up-Jess heard it-the faint kind of leathery sigh the organ made when the foot first touched the bellows." Jess knew that his daughter Mattie was settling down to a musical session in the attic. Just as she launched into The Old Musician and His Harp, Jess cried aloud: "Friends, let us lift our hearts to God in prayer...
...Bring to me my harp again...