Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most conductors know how to play some kind of musical instrument but few musicians are equally good at both playing and conducting. No exception was the late Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Though Detroiters remember him as the high-collared, fidgety conductor of their Detroit Symphony, the musical world remembers him primarily as one of the great pianists of his generation...
...written. In comparison with such brief and finished works which combine psychological subtlety with adventure, The Fifth Column seems ragged and confused. This Hemingway explains by saying that "in going where you have to go ... and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with." He adds that it can be sharpened again, and after it is sharpened he knows he will have something to write about-he wants to live long enough to write three more novels and 25 more stories. Readers of his new book are likely to hope that he sticks...
...during his days as a mustachioed virtuoso on the string bass that he met Natalya Konstantinovna. While sawing the thick strings of his groaning instrument at a Moscow concert, he noticed a girl in the front row, gazing at him in maidenly admiration. Koussevitzky's heart jumped, he sawed away more sweetly than ever. After the concert he searched for his admirer, but she had gone. For weeks romantic Koussevitzky was in a lovesick daze. Months later, at another concert, he spied her again in the audience, made his pachydermatous instrument serenade her with mournful and passionate moans. Again...
When Adolf Hitler, at the Nürnberg Congress, last fortnight promised German aid for the Sudeten Germans, his broadcast speech signaled the Sudeten uprising. Touted as an instrument of international harmony, radio has a bad record as a peace maker. It was no bar to war in Spain, war in China. In every major crisis since the World War, radio has shouted provocative insults, challenges. All last week Berlin's official broadcasting voice screamed against "the Czech mass murderers," bombarded the rest of the world with atrocity stories, invented a radio language in which the Czech army...
...Francis William Aston invented the mass-spectrograph, which measures the mass of atoms by recording their paths in a magnetic field. The principle is that the degree of curvature of an atom's path under magnetic attraction depends on its mass. This instrument was of enormous value in the study of isotopes, which are atoms of the same element having different weights...