Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liner ever to burn at sea, the 41,000-ton Atlantique, was belching to high heaven $18,000,000 worth of flame & smoke. Asphyxiated a few minutes after he sent her first and only S. O. S., the Atlantique's chief radio operator lay slumped against his smoldering instrument table...
...Andrews '25, under whose supervision the testing is being carried on, explains that the outstanding excellence of the instrument lies in the quality of its lens, especially constructed for taking clear pictures in a short period of exposure. The telescope has a four inch Ross lens made by Lundin...
...Britain, France, Germany and Italy declared that, as signatories to the Briand-Kellogg Pact "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy," they are ready to sign with other European states a stronger pact renouncing "recourse to force" in settling European disputes...
When he had finished playing the studies and a less effective fox trot, Iturbi pointed out a tall blond man with a foxlike face sitting in a box. Robert Russell Bennett stood up and, for one of the rare times since he stopped playing every instrument in a boys' band in Freeman, Mo., faced an audience. In Manhattan for 13 years Russell Bennett has practised his trade behind scenes. He works for Harms, the music-publishers. When a songwriter like Jerome Kern or George Gershwin wants to put on a show he takes his tunes to Harms for Russell...
...roar, brassily clanging, diminishing, mellowing into silver chimes. It was the University of Chicago's first carillon concert. In the 200-ft. tower of the chapel, Carilloneur Kamiel Lefévere, humped on his bench, was striking with clenched fists the keys of a huge 72-note instrument, the second that John Davison Rockefeller has given in memory of his mother Laura Spelman Rockefeller, who liked bells. The stone tower seemed to shake as the concussions of big bronze bells struck the walls of the stone bell room, tongued back & forth. All together the bells weigh 220 tons...