Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio industry. A more important fight than was ever put on the air-the match between the two great opposing philosophies of broadcasting- was about to begin. In this corner-the legislators and Government officials who look on radio as too vast and permeating a moral instrument to be left ungoverned by the body politic, too valuable a natural resource to be left free from State control. In that corner-the private broadcasters who have an estimated $150,000,000 invested in plant, who last year made some $140,000,000 from time sales, and gave a 24-hour free...
Using a super-sensitive apparatus containing a C electric battery, a galvanometer, and a photoelectric cell he was able to record the amount of deflection in the current caused by the comb, which was separated from his instrument by 20 ft. of open...
...your article "Orchestral Prima Donnas" [TIME, April 25] hearty congratulations! It helps along in the good work of popularizing the less familiar instruments. The regular soloists of the organization deserve as much recognition as the special big-name artists. In proportion to the pleasure which they give, the individual members of the orchestra, particularly those of the wind choirs, seldom receive their due. To my mind, there is as much beauty in a fine clarinet or viola passage as in an aria performed by a good singer. And as for the horn, the "poetry and passion" of that glamorous instrument...
Concluding that "the foundation as a social instrument has justified itself," Keppel stated no one could write a comprehensive history of the United States today without generous reference to the work done in medicine, education and social service under the auspices of American foundations...
...feel both worried and baffled. The bafflement they can blame on a hybrid art form that at least is earnestly ambitious, at worst is a humorless bollix. The worry they can blame on Poet MacLeish's extraordinary ability to hit topical points straight on the head with whatever instrument happens to come to hand. The conclusion they will probably draw is that Archibald MacLeish is so much of a poet that even his bad books make good points...