Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life Mrs. Nieman greatly admired her nephew and closest of kin, an obscure broadway actor named Cyril Gordon Weld, for whom she intended a large legacy. Weld died in New York in January, with Mrs. Nieman at his bedside. Saddened, Mrs. Nieman returned to Milwaukee and there made the instrument which was last week contested by Fred and Bob Wahl and Mrs. Paula Wahl Pierce, half-brothers and half-sister of Mrs. Nieman's father, the late Christian Wahl...
...prehistoric rhinoceros gave off a mellow sound when struck, assembled a few, built a "bonophone." With the ribs placed on a wooden frame, insulated by strips of rubber and held in position by rubber bands, the bonophone resembles a xylophone, but has a softer, resonant tone. Tuning his instrument by orchestra bells, Preparator Reider likes to play Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing, Chopsticks, America...
...official as he sits in his accustomed chair before the starboard rear observation window. Nevertheless, last week the Boston & Maine joined the current race to lure passengers with gimcracks when it installed a speedometer in the solarium of its crack, streamlined Flying Yankee. Developed by Waltham Watch Co., the instrument is actuated by a small electric generator connected to the car wheels. If it works without too much tinkering, pleases the public, B. & M. plans to install one in each de luxe day-coach on all through trains so that passengers can not only look at the scenery but satisfy...
...Censor Wilkinson was shown the March of Time's eighth British edition. What chiefly caught his attention were the 651 feet which traced the course of His Majesty's Government's attempt to keep Italy out of Ethiopia and uphold the League of Nations as an instrument for international peace. Censor Wilkinson did not object to a shot of the British Home Fleet entering the Mediterranean, but he did object to shots of British troopships going to the same place and to the Voice of Time's announcement: "British troops follow the fleet to the garrisons...
Next day his theory was completely verified. Because of the loose suspension of the horizontal beams of the building, the seismograph record of the night before indicated cataclysmic upheavals at every step he had taken. Apparently the instrument had been particularly disturbed in the course of his descent from the top floor...