Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain and the U.S. were urged last week to join in a massive drive to export one of their most precious natural resources : the English language. As a "truly universal language," said Sir David Eccles, Britain's Minister of Education, English could become "a great instrument for the creation of one world...
...cellos. Says one satisfied Hutchins customer, David Mankovitz, who played with the Kroll Quartet: "Her viola creates a sensation wherever I play it. People want to know how to get that tone quality. At the Spoleto Festival, they wouldn't believe it." Mrs. Hutchins' new instruments, some of which have already been played, are even more unbelievable: they run a wide gamut of tones-from an octave higher than the violin to the lowest tones of the present bass viol-and they do so with equal timbre and loudness each step of the way. Only an instrument maker...
...switchover to jets. For Pan Am's President Juan Terry Trippe, the merger would mean restoration of Pan Am's position as the only U.S. carrier on Atlantic routes, and fulfillment of his old dream of establishing his airline as the U.S.'s "chosen instrument" abroad...
Bottle & Coil. The magnetometer displayed at Venice was developed by Oxford's Research Laboratory for Archaeology, following U.S.-designed electronic circuits. The working arm of the instrument is a small (about 5 oz.) bottle of plain water, which contains hydrogen and, therefore, protons. Surrounding the bottle is an electrical coil connected to a control box. The magnetometer is usually operated by two people, one of whom moves the bottle from point to point, while the other sits at the control box. To make an observation, the controller presses a button, shooting an electric current from a storage battery through...
...instrument is now being used to find Sybaris, the rich Greek colony in southern Italy that gave its name to the word sybaritic. After losing a war with the nearby city of Croton. Sybaris was leveled to the ground, and the Crotonians made the river Crathis flow over the ruins and cover the site with silt. Archaeologists hope that some of the city's interesting features were sealed in protective mud, but they have never known just where to look for them...