Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Milwaukee (Hero Maitland's home) and be told about that city's new Maitland Airport, and visit Dayton, Ohio, scene of their preparations. Later, Lieutenant Hegenberger would return to his post in the office of Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison; Lieutenant Maitland to his as instrument chief of the Army post at Dayton...
Some citizens of the U. S. wondered last week, if this so "unAmerican" super-service is given over U. S.-made telephones. It is not. Swedes long ago refused to tolerate the heavy, antiquated type of instrument which requires two hands to lift it from the table and manipulate it. The "Made in Sweden" telephone is a one-handed device, weighing only a few ounces, combining the transmitter and receiver in a single mounting. Therefore, and because of their excellent quality, Swedish telephones have been very widely adopted for the newer installations in Europe, Asia, Latin America...
...treaty proposing arbitration of all international disputes, drafted by Professor F. B. Sayre L. '12, of the Law School will be the instrument of an appeal to be made to France this summer by the American Arbitration Crusade...
...absorbed Manhattan audience of 600 musicians, engineers, makers of musical instruments, this famed sound scientist, and opponent of the Einstein theory showed how the increased density of metal improves the tone of the instrument, talked on the development of perfect tone. From the lecture room his listeners followed him to the temporary rooms of the Museums of the Peaceful Arts. There they saw his collection of 711 Chinese flutes of jades and ivory flutes carved from human bones, of glass, of an eagle's wing, a ram's horn...
Scientifically a flute's note is simply the projection of a column of air and the vibration of this column before its diffusion into the air. The crowning glory of the flute art is the gold instrument, made with his own hands, many times lent to the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Soon he expects to make a platinum flute that will give even richer, truer tone...