Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a harmonic analyzer Dr. Saunders dissected the tones of old and new violins, plotted their ups & downs on a graph. These indicated that there was practically no difference between the tone quality of a Strad or Guarnerius and of a fine new instrument. The scientist then had a violinist play a Strad and two new violins behind a screen, asking an audience-many of whom were musically erudite-to tell which was which. Only about a third guessed right, and this number would be expected to guess correctly oft the basis of pure chance...
...ruminated disconsolately when suddenly he bit on a grain that smacked like truth. He reclined and closed his eyes: then he knew. Examinations served neither students nor faculty but the College. Like the machine, the College had once been an instrument to an end and was now the end itself. It had outgrown its maker and enslaved him. Those whom It was to serve, now served It. The College was an inscrutable power, an emancipated will, beyond human control. It exerted, Its might through Its policemen, the examinations...
...Onyx Club has closed and it looks like for good. . . . Sonny Dunham of Casa Loma fame, starting another band again. . . . Not content with raising general hell with the Metropolitan Opera and its "great gold curtain," blind pianist Alee Templeton has just developed a fifteen tone scale. The only instrument he can find which it will work on is an old zither, so unfortunately his invention is a bit limited...
...tool of mathematics but a tool of war is the is-was. It is an instrument which, given the data on where an enemy ship is, and where it was, can determine where it will be when the next shell hits. An apter name would be is-was-will...