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Word: key (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sound tracks such as now border motion picture films, are imposed on a revolving glass disc. A series of shutters, connected with a keyboard, covers the maze of tracks. When a key is depressed its shutter opens, allows a beam of light to pass through the disc, shine on a photoelectric cell. The light is transformed into an electric impulse, the impulse into sound. Working on this purely electrical principle the fineness of tone division becomes limited only by the ability of the human ear to perceive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Instrument | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

Singles--J. M. Barnaby 11 '33 defeated Haskins (St. M.), 6-0, 7-5; Richard Inglis Jr. '33 defeated Whitehead (St. M.), 6-1, 6-3; W. S. Arensberg '33 defeated Colman (St. M.), 6-2, 6-3; G. D. Key '33 defeated Goodyear (St. M.), 6-1, 6-4; Morton McMichael '33 defeated Mortimer (St. M.), 6-3, 6-4; G. P. Webber '33 defeated Fabyan (St. M.), 6-1, 8-6; H. R. Woodard '33 defeated Miller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1933 AND SECOND TENNIS TEAMS ARE VICTORIOUS | 5/8/1930 | See Source »

Doubles--Arensberg and key defeated Haskins and Goodyear (St. M.), 6-2, 3-6, 7-5; Barnaby and Inglis defeated Colman and Whitehead (St. M.), 6-2, 6-1; Woodard and Evans defeated Fabvan and Miller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1933 AND SECOND TENNIS TEAMS ARE VICTORIOUS | 5/8/1930 | See Source »

HARVARD 1933 ST. MARK'S Barnaby, No. 1 No. 1, Haskins Inglis, No. 2 No. 2, Whitehead Arensberg, No. 3 No. 3, Goodyear Key, No. 4 No. 4, Mortimer McMichael, No. 5 No. 5, Fabyan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1933 AND SECOND TENNIS TEAMS PLAY AWAY TODAY | 5/7/1930 | See Source »

...Senate last week, NAT'S mail contracts which would expire May 5 may be extended another six years without the Postmaster General's calling for other bids. However, with its plentiful passenger equipment (Transcontinental Air Transport) and strategically located airports (Curtiss-Wright Airports Corp.), the Curtiss-Key group may yet challenge Mr. Rentschler's bold claim that "the air between the coasts is not big enough to be divided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Rentschler Triumphant | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

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