Word: key
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After all, individualism, the marked absence of standardization, is the "note" of Harvard. Customs and "values" may change. The undergraduate may come to venerate a Phi Beta Kappa key as much as his father venerates his safe deposit or even his wine-cellar key. Mr. Lamont looks forward to the culminat hour when "a member of the Phi Beta "Kappa Society is more honored among "all men than a member of the victorious football eleven." On that day what a business the Boston department stores will be doing in ascension robes...
...characteristic pieces for that instrument. Among them are the Schumann Phantiasie, one of the most important works of the romantic school; Debussy's "Submerged Cathedral" which is a striking illustration of descriptive music, impressive and poetical; and several Chopin numbers, examples of the most idiomatic treatment of the modern key-board instrument. Ravel's "Vaalses nobles at sentimentales" show the modern method of tone-color, and Mr. Whitings's own transcription of Bach's English suite in A minor, originally written for the harpsichord, is a pianoforte rendering of that music...
...Honorary President of the American Olympic Committee; was made Honorary President of the Gorgas Institute of Tropical and Preventative Medicine; told a delegation from the National Motorists' Association, " the motor industry has raised people up and has given them an entirely new outlook on life " ; pressed a telegraph key unveiling milestone marking the western terminus of the Lee Highway at San Diego, Calif.; prepared to receive a snow-white collie for the White House kennels, from Oshkosh, Wis. ; banished Peter Pan, Presidential wire haired fox terrier, until his private secretary, Mr. Clark, could teach the dog not to howl...
Mayhew now has hit upon the " Bubble Piano." This is a box with a keyboard which is placed over the piano keyboard.* You press the keys of the box, one after another, and the instrument strikes the proper keys on the piano, plays a melody. You press the first key of the attachment and it strikes a D, say, on the piano. You press the second key, and it strikes say an F sharp on the piano. The third key may strike B, the fourth a G sharp. By striking the keys on the attachment one after another...
...Headers of the cheaper fiction magazines are aware that there has been in the market for some time a system of learning piano-playing by placing over the keys a paper diagram marked with the names of the keys. " Learn to play the piano in a week! Be popular and surprise your friends ! " In this way, though, the player has to skip from one interval to another as on the keyboard itself, while with the Bubble Piano he strikes one key after another in regular succession...