Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shut off the mouth from the nasal cavity and make speech and eating possible, Freud had to wear a "huge prosthesis, a sort of magnified denture or obturator.'' This instrument, says Jones, was a horror that Freud and family nicknamed "the monster." It was painful and difficult to get in or out. In one nightmare scene, neither Freud nor the hovering Anna nor a physician could get it into his mouth, and the surgeon who devised the monster had to be called. When it fitted tightly enough to fulfill its purpose, it caused recurring sores. When...
...substitute, the Band will use its old drum, retired in 1955, which only seniors have seen. According to Kenneth H. Lang '58, band manager, the faithful instrument had not missed a game for 27 years until its retirement, but "is now in exceptionally good condition...
...oratorial entertainment" entitled The Temple of Minerva, which his scattered fans claim as the first American opera. His most ambitious work was Seven Songs, dedicated to his old friend George Washington, who confessed that "I can neither sing one of the songs, nor raise a single note on any instrument to convince the unbelieving." Composer Hopkinson now appears on a Concord album entitled American Anthology, which takes the listener on a rambling and revealing excursion into the American musical past. Hopkinson's deferential A Toast to Washington was written to commemorate his appointment as commander in chief...
Thus, though Secretary Dulles attributed his decision to unspecified "new factors" in the China situation, it was clear that the State Department continued to consider the foreign operations of the press an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. Said the pro-Administration New York Herald Tribune: "Inasmuch as the American press has been functioning since before the birth of the Republic and has a special position under the U.S. Constitution, the idea that it should be placed on probation by the State Department is somewhat breathtaking...
...Greeks began making the vases in the 7th century B.C. with the figures painted in solid black on the reddish clay of the vase. Details were engraved on the black figures with a sharp instrument of some sort, and white and dark red were used as accessory colors. In about 530 B.C. the red-figure technique was introduced, with the background painted black and the figures left in the original reddish color of the vase. Painter and potter worked as a team. The potter threw his shape on the wheel and handed it over to the painter...