Word: pedals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Published last fortnight were the 32 Beethoven sonatas, edited by Pianist Artur Schnabel, peerless Beethoven interpreter (Simon & Schuster, 2 vol., paperbound $5, clothbound $8). Pianist Schnabel contributes valuable fingering and pedal indications, argues over controversial points in long scholarly footnotes printed in French, German and English. Supplementing such conventional markings as forte, pianissimo or con expressione are Schnabel's own suggestions. Examples: "No hurry, no precipitation," "avoid all restlessness," "serious, somewhat gloomy, always arguing...
...road as along it. His legs are forcibly extended, and his feet are pressed down hard. It is the muscular act that Sherrington, who discovered it in the dog, named the 'extensor thrust.' . . . In so doing [the motorist] presses his foot hard down on the accelerator pedal. If then the first jump of the car sends it along a course where it meets other jolts and bumps in rapid succession, the driver tries in vain to recover the equilibrium of his own body. And, as part of this effort, he continues to press down on the pedal...
...tries to keep his feet when he slips on an icy walk are the results of a deep-rooted reflex possessed by all animals, fully developed in newborn babes, unshakable by training. Now that it imperils motorcar operators, Dr. Henderson thinks it could be successfully sidetracked by installing a pedal in the shape of a wide panel almost flush with the floor boards under the driver's left foot. When the "extensor thrust" shoots both his legs out, though the right foot may jam down the accelerator, the pedal pushed by the left foot will turn off the ignition...
...Cars- Heeding the public alarm about Sudden Death in highway accidents, the motormakers now soft-pedal speed. Though a number of makes will go 100 m.p.h. and nearly all will go faster this year than last, every Show visitor was handed a brochure on safe & sane driving...
...Communist Congress for promoting the null Revolution of the World Proletariat. The Comintern's final act was to revive the post of Secretary General last held in 1926 by tousle-haired Grigory Zinoviev, "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," whose career abruptly ended when Joseph Stalin decided to soft-pedal World Revolution for a time. As forecast, Bulgarian Communist George Dimitroff, adder-tongued Red hero of the Nazi trial which failed to convict Communists of burning down the German Reichstag, was chosen last week Secretary General of the Comintern (TIME, July 29). He was acclaimed with shouts of "Long live Dimitroff...