Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Earth Opera's music is the peculiar relationship between the organ rhythms and the drum rhythms. The organ is used by them as a semi-melodic instrument while the drums are straight, but complex, percussion. This interaction between two staggered tempos distinctly creates a third master tempo...
...still sometime before Wallace's planned arrival. The organist, who had one of those organs that can reproduce the sound of any musical instrument, began a rendition of "Baby, the Rain Must Fall". Colonel Laurence Bunker, advisor to Robert Welch, sponsor of the July 4 "New England Rally for God and Country", roamed around the hall looking thoughtful and masterly...
...would be costly and undoubtedly irksome. Even so, the point has come when they are essential. The frontier is gone, and its folkways cannot reasonably be condoned in a dense, tension-filled urban society. The time has long passed when a firearm can be allowed to serve as an instrument of individual justice?as it too often is even today...
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, LL.D., the Shahanshah of Iran. A 20th-century ruler who has found in power a constructive instrument to advance social and economic revolution in an ancient land...
Such uses of liquid crystals' electro-optical potential could be applied soon to a whole new generation of sports scoreboards, traffic-control signs, stock-market tickers, and instrument panels in cars and aircraft. Besides drawing very little power, the devices would work perfectly well in ordinary daylight, since liquid crystals reflect external light rather than produce their own. In the more distant future is a liquid-crystal TV screen. The entire television set, say the RCA researchers, not only would be as thin as a book, but could be watched even in the glaring light of a sun-drenched...