Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the wheezy little instrument was often inaudible, Mme Zalipsky pumped & played vigorously for nearly three hours, pausing only to adjust her glasses or steady her hat. Stagehands had left with the musicians so members of the cast were obliged to manipulate the curtains. Electricians went also, so there was no attempt at lighting. But hit-or-miss the performance, with Edouard Albion as Nilakantha. the fanatic Brahman priest, went on to the end which came...
...President: "It seems to me that the British Government expected us to denounce submarine warfare as inhuman and to deny the right to use submarines in at tacking commercial vessels; and that these statements by Sir Edward Grey evidence his great disappointment that we have failed to be the instrument to save Britishcommerce from attack by Germany. . . ." By April, Allied rejection of the U. S. proposal was unanimous and had been docilely accepted by Secretary Lansing and President Wilson. Years later Sir Edward Grey, a Viscount, retired to feeding wild ducks on his Northumberland estate, was to write...
...metropolitan stay-up-lates, how Rudy Vallee had put it on the air, thus starting its phenomenal popularity. As to the tune's creation, Riley said that one night a girl came into the Onyx Club. "She's pretty high," he recalled. "She says, 'Is that instrument hard to play?' I say, 'Why no. You just sing it. You blow in here and it comes out there...
Force on Farmers. "If the taxing power may not be used as the instrument to enforce a regulation of matters of state concern with respect to which the Congress has no authority to interfere, may it, as in the present case, be employed to raise the money necessary to purchase a compliance which the Congress is powerless to command? The Government asserts that whatever might be said against the validity of the plan, if compulsory, it is constitutionally sound because the end is accomplished by voluntary cooperation. . . . "The coercive purpose and intent of the statute is not obscured...
...appropriate perspective, let us recall very briefly their early history. It is well known how at the beginning of the present century. . . ." At the beginning of the present century Geitel of Germany, experimenting with a quartz-fibre electroscope, noticed that for no apparent reason the air in his instrument gradually became more electrified or ionized. Later experimenters discovered that thick screens of lead or water shut out some of the mysterious ionizing agent, but not all. Lord Rutherford thought it might be something in the atmosphere near the ground. Göckel of Switzerland, Hess of Vienna and Kolhorster...