Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victor Seixas, 18-year-old University of North Carolina freshman; the North & South Singles tennis championship; defeating Harris Everett, another Tarheel, in the final, 2-6, 6-8, 7-5, 6-0, 6-2; at Pinehurst, N.C. Since Bobby Riggs, Frank Kovacs, Welby Van Horn and Wayne Sabin have turned professional, and Don McNeill and Joe Hunt are in the Navy, young Seixas may be a leading contender for this year's national championship...
...inventor is dark-goateed John W. Haussermann Jr., 32 (whose father, a wealthy Cincinnatian, owns three Philippine gold mines). The most commonly used solo instruments in concertos are the piano, violin and cello, and concertos have been written for other instruments: clarinet, horn, saxophone, even the double-bass. For the voice, composers have written vocalises (wordless songs), have included wordless voice parts in orchestral works, but hitherto have not essayed an out-&-out concerto...
...bull-tongued horn blasted through the echoing, vaulted reaches of the Consolidated plant. Slowly, laboriously the line began to move. At one end, a new bomber assembly was fed on to the line. At the other, a B-24 rolled off, ready for flight. The new era in aviation had dawned...
Died. Robert Bosch, 80, bald, bearded German magneto king; in Stuttgart. A farmer's son, he developed a small electrical business in a backyard shop in Stuttgart into a $1,000,000 industry, based chiefly on the world-famed Bosch high-tension magneto, the Bosch auto horn, the Bosch lamp...
...Ever since Joshua blew down the walls of Jericho, men have been making horns the wrong way," said Professor Frederick K. Kirsten of the University of Washington. Without actually saying that his horn was better than Joshua's, he announced that he had invented a horn to outshout all horns. Called a parabolic reflector type of air-raid siren, Professor Kirsten's horn has a ten-foot wooden cup which focuses the siren's shriek into a single noise beam, instead of throwing it to the four winds, and the reflector rotates the beam, like the beam...