Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enjoyable. There were several moments of great beauty, especially in the slow moments of the sonatas and in the eleventh variation on the Mozart theme. Mr. Brown succeeded in putting a great deal of feeling into his playing at these times. All the singing qualities of the instrument that were missing in other movements appeared here...
...takes the hide of one whole calf to make each head, and several years of seasoning are necessary to make the drum playable. In twenty years the monster percussion instrument has become practically the band's trademark so, though the high cost of transportation is prohibitive--always over $100--it is usually carried to all nearby games as well as Soldier's Field...
...opening concert was almost more a tribute to the Orchestra than it was to Munch. It proved beyond question that the Boston Symphony Orchestra lies gleaming in its case like a fine musical instrument, ready to sing in the hands of any great virtuoso. It passes from Koussevitzky to Munch, each with a technique of his own; yet the latent quality of the instrument remains unchanged...
Mark III, a bakelite and steel instrument, is about 30 feet long and fifteen feet wide and weighs close to ten tons. It contains 100 miles of wire, about 4500 vacuum tubes for the electronic operations, 3000 relays, 2500 magnetic heads and play-backs to carry the information to and from the storage drums, and 400,000 solder connections. A staff of about 40 worked on the development and construction of the machine...
Thereafter Murphy was careful to call it the "instrument section." For the record, the Navy maintains that its rockets are strictly for peaceful research...