Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ions formed by the charged corpuscles. This track of condensed vapor can be easily seen with the naked eye and also photographed, showing up as a bright streak on the film. Thus electrons, protons and the new particles, although far too infinitesimal to be directly seen by any optical instrument known, are tricked into disclosing their presence to the human observer...
...down technique is definitely a weapon in the CIO armory and a very effective instrument," was the instructor's comment on the new mode of striking. He felt that the question of the legality of the sit-down has not yet been determined, mentioning its defense in an article in the "New Republic" by the dean of the Northwestern Law School...
...trim beard and heavy, horn-rimmed glasses can hardly believe that Lambros Demetrios Callimahos is only 26. People hearing him pipe harmonics and flying chromatic scales think he must be twice that age to have mastered such a clean technique. Yet young Callimahos never bothered with the instrument till he was 14, when somebody gave him a tin whistle. Callimahos went on to a flute, played it all through high school in Asbury Park, N. J. where he has lived since he was 4. He was also interested in electrical research, studied law at Rutgers, left to flute instead...
Munich heard his first public performance, called him the "flute Paganini." Athens last summer crowned him with laurel. Last week Lambros Demetrios Callimahos made his U. S. debut in a Manhattan recital publicized as an "attempt to restore the flute as a solo instrument...
Recently installed in the Romanesqe Hall of the Museum, the instrument is constructed along the lines of the great Silberman organs of the eighteenth century...