Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that of the Committee on the Choice Of Electives. It consists of tabulated results concerning the number of men concentrating in the various fields along with the number of candidates for distinction and honors in each. As such it is at once the most sensitive and most accurate instrument for registering the progress of Harvard's educational system. The figures compiled for this year and printed elsewhere in the columns of the CRIMSON today indicate several marked trends...
...among the fiddle strings, weighted with music." She grew up in a Southern town, a town in which the strong rhythms of life were matched against a cold and dreadful rhythm of decay. There were three men who came to her house, listening to the dark music of her instrument, bringing with them some hot beauty from life. "Conway calling alone would talk of himself, sitting happily in the dim light of the parlor and enjoying his heightened self, his ease, his good looks, Theodosia's beauty, all the delights of remembered being. . . . Albert would come heavily into...
There are 40 Royal Academicians - . the number fixed by George III when he granted them the "Instrument" of foundation. The following year a class of Associates was formed, and is now composed of an indefinite number of members with a minimum of 30. To this class Laura Knight belongs. Associates are elected by vote of both Academicians and Asso ciates, having been proposed and seconded by one of the former. They have all rights and privileges except an active part in the Academy ad ministration...
...crawled to the front pages of U. S. newssheets by calling himself "organizer and president of the World League of Cities," by inviting all kinds of potentates to a convention in Boston where he lives. Another, who inhabited a Brooklyn cellar while he wrote poetry and played a stringed instrument, is on trial for butchering an old lady. Last week a third janitor came to a measure of fame...
...field of communication engineering: and during the war carried on experiments in supersonics at the Bellevue Laboratory, Washington, D. C., to work out a means of detecting the approach of submarines. The naval officers who are studying at Harvard this year will work with the hydrophone, an instrument used for depth finding, signalling under water, the detection of objects on the ocean floor, and the transmission of speech through the sea. The radio will be the special field of some of lie men, as the primary, and often the only means of communication...