Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drum will restore to the Band its former distinction of owning the largest playable bass drum in the world. The University of Florida last year bought a drum identical to the old Band instrument; now, of course, the new Harvard drum would be slightly larger...
They're in mourning over at the Bandroom, for their Drum is dead. The eight-foot instrument, once the largest playable bass drum in the world, expired last week after a twenty-eight year battle with damp weather which expanded its cowhide sides, and a mammoth drumstick, which contracted them. But the Bandsmen are not spending their time in idle, tearsome reflections--of how the Drum stopper a Yale student who tried to jump through it, of how a Cambridge boy once rode on top, whamming it with the huge drumstick...
...drum did not decline unnoticed, however, Guide Cautelli, guest conductor of the Boston Symphony asked to use the drum last month--for Verdi's Requiem. Now, the instrument will get a requiem of its own, from the Band. Nothing morbid or elaborate, you understand, but "winter green...
Then John Foster Dulles looked squarely at the man he had labeled the instrument of an evil force and said: "I think that the Soviet Foreign Minister will understand that it is at least excusable if we think, and if much of the world will think, that what is actually under way here is another illustration of the unwillingness of the Soviet Union actually to restore genuine freedom and independence in any area where it has once gotten its grip...
This is about the Italian airliner which undershot the runway and crashed* at [New York's] Idlewild [ Airport ] after failing three times to hold the instrument glide-path which would have brought it down to the runway. It is written on the idea that the instrument or instruments-altimeter-cum-drift-indicator-failed or had failed, was already out of order or incorrect. It is written in grief. Not just for the sorrow of the bereaved ones of those who died in the crash, and for the airline, but for the pilot himself, who, along with his unaware passengers...