Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started on October 16, when, on the first page of "Notes and Coment," the New Yorker supposedly lost its illusions and declared that "the six-foot base drum in the Harvard band is a phoney." Result of this sudden and undeserved notoriety of the giant precession instrument has been a flood of publicity, news photos and wiaccracks during the last two weeks, including a mammoth burlesque of inanimate maternity by pacudo-obatririenna from Hanover before the deluge at the Dartmouth game...
...more people knew the value of this instrument, the money-starved music department would not at this moment be hesitating whether they should repair, or allow age to run its certain course. It is a crime that a rare instrument essential to the performance of old music should not be used for demonstration in the courses that need...
Perhaps the University might adequately finance its department so that repairs might be undertaken. Failing this a subscription should be taken from all Harvard music lovers, so that this instrument might not be allowed to disintegrate through ignorance and neglect. David H. Kimball...
...weather flying for private flyers is restricted to instruments. Pilots must have instrument rating and equipment, two-way radio, complete flight plans from which they may not deviate without giving ample notice...
General effect of the new rules is that the privileges of the U. S.'s 380 transport airliners and 8,849 private planes during fine weather are better equalized than before; when weather conditions are unfavorable Federal airways are reserved for scheduled airlines. All others, unless equipped for instrument flying and with approved flight plans, must keep off the airways...