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Word: instrument (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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From "inspired statements" in the Hispano-Italian press, it became clear last week however, that the instrument consists of some 15 articles, dealing with the relations of Italy and Spain, firstly from a political and secondarily from a juridical aspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Secret | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...little man, white-bearded, energetic, wrinkled, bespectacled, found himself before the mighty instrument, viewed with approval this appropriate memorial to Hermann Kotzschmar, late famed Prussian orchestra leader, organist, composer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Memorial Organ | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...Charles Udall, located a mammoth's shoulder blade near Arivaca. Diviner Udall's thimble contained something sensitive to lime deposits. The stick dipped to outline a mammoth's tusk, a whole mammoth's skeleton, a buried dinosaur. Dr. Cummings, instead of theorizing about the instrument, proceeded to investigate further whether an important new fossil bed had been discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...Companions in Sonorous Construction : Upon the arrival of the piano which I ordered from you recently its strings began suddenly to vibrate, drowning the sound of nearby church bells. Not without trembling I perceived that the shadow of Franz Liszt, who was once a guest here, had entered the instrument and was producing with long immaterial fingers a beautiful rhythmic tempest. "This is a place of mysteries and prodigies. Rejoice with me!" (Signed) Gabriele d' Annunzio Gardone, Lago di Garda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Place of Prodigies | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

There is a small, dark, steelyeyed, supple man, whom statesmen often dub "the first diplomat in Europe," whose accomplishments would stagger belief were they not chronicled in post-War history books. Dr. Edouard Benes*; was an essential instrument in: 1) The partition of Austria-Hungary after the War. 2) The creation of Czechoslovakia as a state. 3) The drafting of the League Protocol. And in the creation of the Little Entente (See INTERNATIONAL, p. 9) his was the master hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Bright Boy Benes | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

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