Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...female method of tone production tillers radically from that of the male it seems almost libelous to attribute drooling to their horn players (TIME, March 25 ). Closer observation would show you that it is condensed moisture from the breath rather than saliva which accumulates within the tubing of brass instruments. As for ascribing the difficulty of French horn playing to the necessity of passing ' breath "evenly through some 16 feet of tubing, a matter of sustaining tone, a more fundamental problem is that of even starting the designated tone owing to the multiplicity of overtones which may accidentally take...
...operation, the Kruesi Radio Homing Compass is simplicity itself. You tune in on a commercial broadcast, listen to Paul Whiteman or Father Coughlin. Then you switch off the earphones, turn on the bearing-indicator. A pointer on the instrument-board dial guides you so accurately to the broadcasting station that if a balloon were sent up from it on a string you would cut the string in half, flying blind. By taking cross-bearings on two broadcasting stations you can determine your position to a hair's breadth...
...will play selections from Handel and Bach on the instrument that they originally composed them for, and give the audience an opportunity to discover how their contemporaries heard them...
...hypocrisy in the relations between the Powers because of the League's existence. Certainly the League is fighting a losing battle in trying to keep its head above water in an era so nationalistic as ours. Mr. Gathorne-Hardy has so completely lost faith in the League as an instrument for maintaining peace, that in attempting to appraise the situation in his last paragraph, he cannot even mention it by name...
...combination. Over outright merger or consolidation, they have the advantage that they can be backed out of if the proposed combination is unsatisfactory. They form a complete concentration of the management and control of an industry without the increasing inefficiencies of large scale business. They are a useful instrument. It is poor logic to abolish them as a whole because some men have abused them in the past...