Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vibraharp (or vibraphone, or "vibes") is a modern variety of glockenspiel (metal xylophone) played with felt hammers and fitted with electrical resonators which impart a mechanical vibrato to its bell-like tones...
...total U.S. production of all tracklaying tractors-the "caterpillar" type that runs on two endless metal belts-was just over 20,000 units. "Crawlers" are the slower-moving types...
...clavichord the strings are thumped by levers of metal...
Hospital Bound. Charles, leading a strafing attack over the nearby Marshalls, ran into ack-ack. Windshield and instrument panel exploded and more than 200 particles of glass and metal were driven into his face and body. Blinded in one eye and drenched with blood, Charles made a perfect landing on his carrier...
Bakelite and Boar Bristles. John Challis makes his harpsichords in a two-floor studio above an Ypsilanti dress shop. Two assistants, who have been with him for years, help him fit together the intricate combination of carved hardwoods, leather plectra, metal strings and frames, ivory keys and Siberian boar-bristle springs out of which a fine harpsichord is concocted. A slow, painstaking craftsman, Challis turns out only about eight harpsichords a year, at prices ranging from $400 to $2,700. So far, wartime shortages of materials have not affected his output...