Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brassy dignity, an odd-looking contraption stood on the stage of Chicago's Orchestra Hall one night last week. It was a Schellenbaum (bell tree), an instrument of Moorish origin, looking like a brass Christmas tree hung with bells and horse tails. It is the only Schellenbaum owned by a U. S. orchestra. The Chicago Symphony, which got it as a gift from the late Composer Camille Saint-Saëns, trots it out rarely. But last week, when the Symphony began its soth season, its 36th under the still competent baton of stooped, white-haired old "Papa" Frederick...
...frequency of urination . . . angina pectoris [heart disease] and high blood pressure." Dr. Young cured his prostate trouble by using a "punch" of his own invention-a straight tube with a short, curved inner end which, when passed through the urethra (urinary canal), trapped in a small window of the instrument the bar of tissue which was damming up his bladder and cut it with an inner, sliding steel tube...
...inventor as well as a famed surgeon, Dr. Young has spent many hours in the Institute's tool shop. He designed a modern cystoscope, a tubular instrument with a prism and electric light, used for examining the interior of the bladder. Other inventions: a combination cystoscope and radium applicator for treating tumors of the bladder; a special type of lithotrite, an instrument for crushing stones in the bladder...
Hudson comes out with "Lucite" lens (light-bending) on the instrument panels. Also pushed is "Symphonic Styling," adman's way of saying outside colors blend with inside colors. Prices...
...Laube-first commenced work on the 20th Century Camera six years ago in a cubicle of the Fox camera department hidden down an obscure alley of the sprawling studio. For two years they labored long after hours, completed the first working model by 1936. Their purpose: to produce an instrument simple and speedy to operate, light enough to be toted by one man. An automatic focussing device would eliminate the time-eating practice of plunging a tape into an actor's face to measure his distance from the camera. A built-in scene recorder would eliminate the slovenly "slating...