Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of upstart rivals in the tutorial system and in the reading periods, remains the central medium of university instruction. It is, accordingly essential that everything be done to counteract the inherent tendency of mass lectures to degenerate into a dull substitute for student reading. One valuable pedagogical instrument of which too little use is made is the class discussion...
...Henri IV's statue-all so that he could study at the Conservatoire. Conservatoire students were supposed to bow down to the Academicians but in spite of his inexperience, Berlioz developed theories of his own. He wrote scores which called for an incredible number of players. He combined instruments in ways that had never been done before. He even endorsed the mongrel saxophone which the instrument-maker, Adolphe Sax, had introduced into the clarinet family. An Irish actress. Harriet Smithson, came to Paris and Berlioz was fairly beside himself. After staging a suicide in her presence he persuaded...
...Shriner tendencies sternly held in check by a wife who intends to make him U. S. Ambassador to France. Europe-junketing Senator Opal, a political Dry with a really horrible temper, who unluckily sent Mrs. Gedge a letter intended for his bootlegger, is to be the blunt, blackmailed instrument of Mrs. Gedge's scheme. "Soup" Slattery, hot on the trail of the Gedge jewels; Jane Opal, who thinks she wants an intellectual beau but really fell for Packy when she saw him play for Yale; the Vicomte de Blissac, continuous sufferer from a most unGallic thirst; all these...
Inventor Macneil began his pursuit of infra-red rays as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. During the War he considered how to apply his researches to a nautical instrument, fixed on the sextant. Because no U. S. workmen could make the delicate apparatus required, he went to Holland. In February 1931 he guided the Mauretania across the Atlantic with his thermoelectric sextant, which was later adopted by the British Admiralty. Last week he announced he was ready to begin commercial production. A ship will need but one thermoelectric sextant which will cost about $2,000 instead...
...sales drive is centred this week. In the lowest price bracket the Terraplane boasts unusually high power to weight ratio. To Arthur Kudner of Erwin, Wasey Advertising Agency goes credit for the car's name. It has six cylinders, body & chassis as one structural unit, rubber engine-mounting, instrument panel directly in front of the driver. Reported price...