Word: instrumental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beautiful clarinet solo by Eari Bostic, Dinah Washington's rendition of Ellington's "Concerto for Cootie' now retitled "Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me," and Hampton's superb vibraphone work ably backed by the Symphony strings on "Moonglow." There is no denying Lionel's artistry on this instrument and it is unfortunate that he neglected it most of the evening in favor of one finger piano solos and noisy drum exhibitions...
Nobody expected much of the politicians. . . . Yet we can triumph only if the people find in our party not a mere instrument for personal ambition, but the representation of principles...
Frightened folk below forgot all about the professor until he jounced four miles downslope to tell Allied officials that the lava flow had slackened, evacuation could be halted. Then, anxious to get back to his instrument readings, he hurried upslope again, this time provided with a car. Behind him he left word that Vesuvius had not put on a better show since 1872, when showers of stone killed 20. (By week's end the present eruption had caused 26 deaths.) But the little geophysicist was also sure that the show was "effusive" and not "explosive"; he had been much...
...bouncing radio waves off it and catching their echo on a receiver. The first hint of radio's possible usefulness as a ground-level detector came when experimenters noticed that a ship moving between a transmitter and receiver interfered with radio waves. The basic radar instrument had three main elements: 1) a short-wave sender-receiver which could bounce back a beam, through clouds, smoke or rain, from a small object (e.g., a plane or ship) as much as 130 mi. away, 2) a vane to determine the object's direction, 3) sensitive electronic tubes to measure...
...literal sense, up in the air. The clearest thing in the air was what would not come up at the overdue conference. At the head of the not-for-discussion list are the two piping-hot but purely domestic issues: 1) whether the U.S. should have one big "chosen instrument" or a few competing foreign airlines (TIME, Aug. 23 et seq.); 2) whether railroads, ship companies and bus lines should be allowed to fly. On the positive side, U.S. diplomats were fresh out of ideas...