Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field is Russian-born, reticent Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, who is also its television ace. His first electron microscope was as big as a hot-water boiler, needed a whole roomful of high-voltage equipment to run. Since then R. C. A. has designed a smaller, slimmer, slicker instrument, whose power plant occupies only two cubic feet. R. C. A. says that any bright person can learn to get good results with it in an hour. Last week R. C. A. was ready to market the new model to research institutions. Price: $9,500 an instrument...
Most popular Brazilian musical form is the chôro (pronounced shoro}, in which one instrument in an ensemble improvises on a theme, in about the same way that a U. S. jazz musician "takes a chorus" for a solo ride. Villa-Lobos has composed 14 choros, ranging from a guitar solo to a magnificent, jungle-rhythmed piece, Choros No. 10, for chorus and orchestra...
Close to 500 local voters gathered at the school auditorium last night to hear Professor Hermen's attack against P. R. as "the best life insurance for machine voting that any one ever invented," and as "an ineffective instrument of majority rule...
...while in the election year 1940 "Big Government" is a topic of heated controversy, this representative group of writers assumes as inevitable the extension of the government sphere of influence: "Government today is compelled to control crucial new areas of public activity. The public service thus becomes an essential instrument for creating a better America...
...audience thundered applause when Papa Stock entered, lifted his baton to begin a Festival Fanfare which he had written for the jubilee. Next to Stainer's Sevenfold Amen, the Fanfare was probably the longest (ten minutes) ever composed, gave every instrument in the orchestra something to do, finally had even the Schellenbaum (manned by a percussionist) shaking like a hula dancer...