Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reign for Edward VIII with that blameless private life and awful magnificence which British school children are taught to see in His Majesty the King & Emperor. Last week it became the function of Lord Linlithgow to see that each of the Indian Princes who must sign a so-called "Instrument of Accession" in order for his State to enter the Indian Federation actually takes pen in hand and signs. For this purpose the Viceroy last week sent on tour as his personal emissaries to each of India's potentates three resolute political officers on special mission. Respectively the three...
...lying is the polygraph, perfected by Professor Leonarde Keeler of Northwestern University. A subject attached to the polygraph who tells an untruth supposedly registers changes in blood pressure, pulse and respiration which are indicated by a needle jiggling on a graph. Tested last week in Manhattan was another such instrument-the psychogalvanometer. The invention of tall, burly Father Walter G. Summers, S.J., Ph.D., head of Fordham University's department of psychology, the psychogalvanometer works not on the heart and lungs but on the minute electrical currents coursing through the body...
...longer need the followers of the Green bow their heads in shame when the Harvard band marches onto the field with one member banging melodically on his lyre-shaped instrument. No longer can Yale vaunt its silver-toned hope in front of the Hanoverian stands as they bend their heads in shame...
...musical instrument shall be played upon and no singing shall be allowed except between one o'clock in the afternoon and ten o'clock in the evening. No boisterous music or playing upon drums, or other harsh instruments, shall be allowed at any time...
...Harvard University Orchestra is conducted by Mr. Malcolm Holmes and has each year been steadily improving in calibre and performance. Any student who plays an orchestral instrument is urged to come at least to the first trials. If the instrument in question is something rather unique like a bassoon or an English horn, the player will be especially welcome...