Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jezire-ibn-Omar, 20 miles behind the Mosul frontier, and mild efforts to prepare the Dardanelles against a possible naval threat from Britain. The Jumhuiet, famed Turkish Government journal, announced: "They are merely measures of national defense . . . since the emasculate League of Nations wallows as a mere servile instrument of British dictatorship. A recourse to arms remains as our only means of defending our rights...
...radio microphone was brought before him, for the speech was to be very public indeed. The saloon hushed. Putting his lips close to the instrument, Thomas Alva Edison delivered himself of one of the briefest addresses in history; an address known by heart by all kinds and conditions of men, the wide world over; an address which Mr. Edison helped to compose half a century ago out of a rough draft from the brain of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. With blue eye a-twinkle, said Mr. Edison: "Hello...
...last week's meet lack the traditional presence of onetime Attorney General George W. Wickersham, solicitous that the Bar Association remain faithful to the World Court and other instrument? of world peace...
...conductor of the Chicago Opera Company) and with lyrics by an American (Richard L. Stokes, dramatic critic of the St. Louis Post-Despatch) was given a gentle premier in the St. Louis Municipal Theatre last week. Dignity was the keynote. There was no saxophone in the orchestra, nor any instrument with a belly for giggling, or a ribald larynx. Tenor Forest Lament lifted up his voice impressively. An audience of some 9,000 who had come to catcall, hump their shoulders and shuffle their feet, went off to their homes or their cabarets feeling- some of them-that they...
...angle of the shutter) and allowed to escape at the will of the player. Again, the reflector can return to the strings a large part of the energy imparted by the player's fingers. Inventor Hammond held, at his home in Gloucester, Mass., a demonstration of a regulation instrument fitted with his invention. Famed musicians composers, expressed their wonder. Said Pianist Josef Hofmann...