Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason. Seemingly no logic can reveal the Constitution for what is is: a document designed by the Fathers to furnish a working code of government, but which, being framed in an emergency one hundred and fifty years ago, as the Senator himself admits, is admittedly an imperfect instrument and subject, like all the works of man, to the wear and tear of circumstance. Although it may be true that permitting the President to exercise discretionary tariff powers is equivalent to handing him some of the taxing power, as Senator Borah avers, this does not mean, as the Senator further...
Throughout the performance the slender little composer sat almost hidden behind the organ console at the far right of the stage. Sometimes he used his great instrument to strengthen the choruses. More often it was only to blend with the orchestra or round out massive undertones worthy of his subject. Pietro Yon proved years ago that he is a musician before he is an organist. He had not written an oratorio to exhibit his own virtuosity, to show how his feet could travel the pedals, his fingers control the maze of stops...
Roman emperors liked the organ because it was the loudest wind instrument. They called it an hydraulus because air was fed into its pipes by a water contrivance. In the Seventh Century Pope Vitalian recommended an organ for churches with a view to improving the singing of congregations. The first keys were as big as the treadle of a knife-grinder's machine. Strength was the first requisite of a player, who struck at the great slabs with his fist, had the title of "organ-beater." Early in the 15th Century pedals were introduced because the bass keys were...
...churches the organ remained while inventors experimented with hand bellows, gas and water motors, wood and metal pipes, stops to ape the tone quality of almost every known instrument. Wheezy and unreliable were the small irreverently named "God boxes" once pumped by Senator James Couzens, President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange, Frank D. Waterman (fountain pens) and Will H. Hays, now members of Funnyman Chester Werntz ("Chet") Shafer's Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers. Electricity wrought the change whereby fan-blowers automatically deliver the wind pressure and stop levers are wired to a complicated switchboard...
...Dartmouth researchers are not yet sure of aniseikonia's cause. They think it may be some malformation of the front part of the eye, or a larger number of light-sensitive cones in one retina than in the other. To detect the condition they have devised a complex instrument of peepholes, dots and lights, called the Ophthalmo-Eikonometer. To correct the condition they, and American Optical Co., have developed "iseikonic spectacles" with miniature telescope lenses to balance images...