Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their best proof is the world's largest firm: the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Few corporations in the world are as intimately woven into the life of a nation as A.T.& T. It not only helped the nation grow and prosper, but helped make the telephone a universal instrument that changed the world's mores, entered its drama and literature, and became indispensable to teenagers and tugboat captains alike. Most people never notice the telephone until it goes out of order-and a good many believe it was invented by Don Ameche. But A. T. & T. always...
...Germany, thought that Virginia's real forte might be the harpsichord, which lacks dynamic range (it sounds almost the same whether whacked or stroked) and mainly requires delicate, precise fingering. It also requires good care: the slightest humidity change in the Pleasants' Bonn home makes their instrument go sharp in summer, flat in winter. In winter they boil as much as two gallons of water daily to keep it in tune...
...proposal containing plans for such an instrument was presented to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration last October, and the researchers are awaiting a contract to proceed with actual construction...
...over the East River through LaGuardia's "back door." The back door's runway 22 was equipped with only a radio localizer enabling pilots to line up their planes with the 5,000-ft. runway, lacked the glide-slope signal and the brilliant neon approach lights of instrument runway 4. Routinely. DeWitt flew over runway 22's checkpoint three miles away in The Bronx, lined himself up with the strip, acknowledged landing clearance with his flight number: "320." The message was his last...
Owlish Cellist Pablo Casals, 81, ventured a hopeful thought on a species of U.S.-bred cacophony scarcely ever ventured on his mellow instrument: "Rock 'n' roll is a disease that shall pass away as quickly as it was created. It is a sad thing for your country. It is nothing, nothing...