Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supported by the theory of an English scientist, who says that sixteen years is the age at which a man reaches his maximum intelligence: after that he may sow study, reap facts, thresh theories, feed on observation, and digest experience; but he will never possess a sharper mental instrument than at the end of his boyhood...
...term conductors it is bound to take a little time to give itself up entirely to a new spirit; but if it is fortunate enough to retain Koussevitzky for another year or two, and will make a few obviously necessary changes in its personnel, it will become a marvelous instrument. It is already a remarkable one. The New York Symphony Orchestra I heard only two or three times; it has apparently become so part and parcel of Mr. Damrosch that it is difficult for an outsider to estimate it purely and simply as an orchestra. The State Symphony Orchestra, again...
William Norman Guthrie, rector of St. Marks-in-the-Bouwerie, Manhattan, temporarily withdrew all forms of dancing from his church "out of consideration for our fellow churchmen who cannot yet see their way to trust us with their great and holy instrument of religious education...
Recently a young man in Portland, Oregon, under the impression that he too, could learn 'o play in thirty days, purchased what is called a cornet. Being more than commonly considerate, he took the instrument to a vacant lot, and there, behind sheltering bill boards, gave vent to his musical complex. Such was the reward of his virtue, however, that he was taken to the police station as a "suspicious person." The following morning a wise judge praised his thoughtfulness in not practicing where he would disturb the neighbors and sent him back...
...shipwreck. I suppose it is the Lusitania. No it's not the Lusitania. It's a thing that ran into an iceberg-the Titanic, and a singing of hymns. I feel as if somebody was crashing a fiddle or a cello, or breaking up a musical instrument. People are being picked up out of the water and saved...