Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life was a long irony. He had no great belief in religion, except as a necessary instrument of government; yet he was in holy orders. He was a charming man to children-with the attractiveness, to borrow a phrase from Henry Miller, of a man about to go insane. He had an obscene imagination; yet his Gulliver...
...house near Viper. "This thang hain't much good any more. Ah put in a new fret-just took a pin and bit the head offen h'it-but h'it still don't play too good." When she plays, she puts the three-stringed instrument across her lap, then strums out the tune on the top string while the bottom two give off a thin, constant drone. For lonesome songs, she tunes the top string down a third to get a minor mode. Sample: Down in some lone valley, in a lonesome place, Where...
...rules for instrument (IFR) and visual (VFR) flight which were good enough when planes were few and slow, are dangerously dated with thousands of speedy private, commercial and military craft crowding the airways. And the situation will get worse with jets...
...against it, and they pull increasing weight in U.S. aviation. Of 8,963,000 hours flown in civil aviation last year, 70% were flown by private flyers. Furthermore, they own all but 1,175 of the 59,000 U.S. airworthy civilian planes. Yet only 9% of the pilots have instrument ratings necessary to fly on fully controlled airways...
Next to the phonograph, the piano is the U.S.'s fastest selling musical instrument, and it is doing better than at any time since the big boom days of the '20s. The American Music Conference, which keeps track, said last week that sales so far this year are 20.32% above 1954: at that rate, some 180,000 pianos will be shipped by year's end. About 19 million Americans now play piano. Next most popular instruments: guitar (played by 4,000,000), stringed instruments (3,000,000), woodwinds and brasses (2,000,000 each), ukulele...