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Word: instrument (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banquet came when Dr. Pease could find no match to light the candles on his cake. At length one guest proffered a cigaret lighter, explained that he used it only to light his way home on winter evenings. Gingerly the president of the Non-Smokers' Protective League took the instrument, lighted the candles. Purred he, "God bless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 17, 1934 | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

Amateur detectives were at a loss today to determine the probable mentality of the thieves who robbed the Briggs & Briggs Music Store. Discarding one by one a vast selection of valuable ukuleles as unsuited to their needs, the burglars finally hit upon a tarapatch, an instrument half way between a ukulele and a tipple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DETECTIVES SEEK THIEF OF BRIGGS & BRIGGS UKULELE | 12/7/1934 | See Source »

...inch squares, and the observer looks through a pair of binoculars to count the images within each square, finding as, many as three or four hundred in each. In this work, the large telescopes are useless since the greatest area it is possible to photograph with a 100-inch instrument is about one-tenth of a square degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survey of Galactic System Being Conducted At Oak Ridge Observatory Reveals New Facts | 12/1/1934 | See Source »

...enigma of the hour, the whereabouts of the band's large drum, was solved last night when the instrument, which was thought to have been borrowed by Yale students, was found resting safely in its usual place in the Dillon Field House. It arrived safely, having been shipped on by authorities of the Yale Athletic Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRUM SAFE IN CAMBRIDGE; WHOLE STORY CALLED HOAX | 11/28/1934 | See Source »

...drum's custodians, who had difficulty in accounting for even their own movements over the weekend, were overjoyed to hear of the instrument's safe arrival. It is suspected that the story of the loss was spread by playful members of the band...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRUM SAFE IN CAMBRIDGE; WHOLE STORY CALLED HOAX | 11/28/1934 | See Source »

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