Word: horned
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Margaret started piano lessons at age five, and by eight knew that she wanted to become a conductor. She set about mastering a wide variety of orchestral instruments; she tooted the baritone horn in her high school band and played the double bass in the orchestra at Indiana University. She was also a junior golf champion and a wartime civilian flying instructor for the Navy. When she graduated from college in 1947, one of her teachers warned her that orchestra conducting was a male preserve, and so she went to the Juilliard School to study choral conducting with Robert Shaw...
These lots will be valuable, for the town is filled to overflowing every summer. The public amusements during what is known as the "genteel season" include horse racing, theatricals and dances (at which, says a recent visitor, "one or two blacks supply the company with woful horn-pipespipes and jigs...
...Friis, 83, radio-communications pioneer whose work helped make possible, among other things, modern radio reception and microwave transmission; of a stroke; in Palo Alto, Calif. Born in Denmark, Friis became a leading research scientist with the Bell System, eventually holding 25 patents, including one for the famous horn-reflector antenna of microwave systems first used in satellite communication. Highly regarded as a teacher of other scientists, Friis also supervised the work of the late Karl Jansky, founder of radio astronomy...
...fame with Glenn Miller and other titans of the prewar Big Band era. More recently, Hackett had been paying his bills by performing anonymously in treacly mood-music albums released under Jackie Gleason's name, but his reputation seems secure -almost as hot, cool and craftsmanlike on the horn in pieces like String of Pearls or Body and Soul as Louis Armstrong...
Coach Mike Horn said yesterday he was satisfied with the results. "If you eliminate the first day of the nationals, it was a great performance," Horn said. "I just don't know what took us so long to get it together...