Word: make
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picking out Old Black Joe on the piano is a man having a mildly good time. But he would be having a better time if he were extracting great ranges of dynamics and tone color from his instrument. To make amateurs feel like virtuosos has been, in recent years, one great object of U. S. electrical engineers. Six years ago Radio Engineer Benjamin Franklin Miessner patented an electronic piano, in which pickups and a loudspeaker do the work of a sounding board and make amateurs dynamic enough to bring in the neighbors. Today eight companies are licensed to make electronics...
...last week (see cut), it was a photographic scoop for Harris & Ewing, which has taken all the official Court pictures since Charles Evans Hughes became Chief Justice in 1930. Harris & Ewing's dignified Chief Photographer William Whipple Campbell is opposed to enlarging the Supreme Court because nine men make a better picture...
Columnists, like most people, have families. Unlike most people, columnists often parade their close relatives before their public, to make a point or fill a stick. Constant readers know about the mothers of Hugh Johnson and Hey wood Broun, about Dorothy Thompson's son and Eleanor Roosevelt's husband. Last week Westbrook Pegler had a good story to tell about his father...
...newspaperman who never made more than $100 a week, Arthur Pegler is a little baffled by the money some people get. His younger son grew up to be an advertising man with a big income, and that was all right with him. But for Westbrook to make $46,000 a year writing for newspapers is to Arthur Pegler a stupendous joke on somebody. Mr. Pegler calls Westbrook "Buddy...
...speculators even talked seriously of far less likely magic such as further dollar devaluation-which would make it cheaper for the dictatorships to buy needed supplies in the U. S. and would put a strain on the pound sterling and the franc, a distinct disadvantage in the President's eyes...