Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rolling barrels around in the sky. An organ whose echoes will be heard for miles around the valley is to be installed on the great rock of Geroldseck as an Austrian War Memorial. Contributions taken throughout Germany and Austria have paid for the building of the great instrument which will have 1,735 pipes rising above what will appear to be a miniature keyboard set 330 feet lower down on the rock...
PERHAPS the most valuable instrument in the hands of the historian is "time". It is easy to censure or to praise from the safe distance of four or five decades, whereas the contemporary critic is in constant danger of blemishing his own reputation. Mr. Muir bore this in mind when he wrote this little volume on the world after the war of 1914, and he takes the precaution to temper his political prescience with such phrases as "Time alone can reveal the results," or "Whatever the outcome, it will rank among the great events of human history...
...Vagabond,peering into the dim future sees a new Harvard. It has become so thoroughly Oxfordized that the students have "scouts", and television has become the accepted means of education. He sees a room in Lowell House, a students figure reclining on a couch, a henchman hovering over an instrument in the corner, ready to do the master's slightest bidding. He hears a bored voice, "I say. Hawkins, turn off that beastly Hocking man and lets have something hot from Willie Langer...
...complete guide to the rearing and use of the house mouse as an instrument of scientific investigation...
...large rooms in front on each side of the staircase will be devoted to oceanography and physical geography respectively. Next to these will be computing rooms a drafting room and an instrument room, in which the University master clock will be set to run in a vacuum. Back of these is a modern lecture hall to seat 260, in the rear of which will be a motion' picture, camera enclosure housing the latest talking projectors. Beside this hall will be a workshop in which students may make or repair their instruments...