Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edwin Franko Goldman is a Jew writer, with musicianly grey hair, an ascetic face, and strong leathery lips of the professional wind-instrument-player...
...strong, leathery lips of a professional wind instrument player...
Tired pianists who have practiced all day until their fingers are fagots of bruised nerves and the sound of their instrument echoes as hollowly to their ears as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, dream, when asleep, of the perfect piano. They seat themselves before a suave and sable instrument that is pliant to their will as none that mortal hands have ever fingered; it speaks for them with a mighty organ voice; notes, at the command of their subconscious will, sing with the pomp of trumpets or the tenderness of fiddles, yet it is no pipe organ that they...
Said Inventor Perry, absorbed in his instrument: "Yes, we're not far from oil now. A matter of feet perhaps, I'm sure. . . . Oil is where you find it." He added that drilling would continue to the depth of the deepest wells...
Within 24 hours of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender demonstration, the Victor Talking Machine Co. announced, without describing it, a music-producing instrument which was destined to "revolutionize the industry." At Washington, Philip P. Quayle . the Bureau of Standards added considerably to man's knowledge of ballistics...