Word: phonographers
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...like a traditional baby. Twin Jimmy cannot skate, refuses to climb down from any stand even two feet high. When in any predicament, he shows his sense of insecurity by turning to older people for help. Next step in Dr. Tilney's study of learning processes is to phonograph every sound a child makes from birth until it begins to talk coherently. That speech study waits on some interested philanthropist providing a few thousand dollars. A merry account of doughty Johnny and timid Jimmy Dr. McGraw took to Chicago last week for the 41st convention of the American Psychological...
...Chatham Press. Drawings by Scott Wilson. Price $3.50 with a phonograph record on which Mr. Fiske plays the piano and recites the adventures of "Ida, The Wayward Sturgeon...
...Berlin, when Conductor Otto Klemperer was pommeled by a band of Nazi youths and Soprano Frida Leider had her Bayreuth invitation recalled, Toscanini joined ten other eminent musicians in cabling a protest to Hitler (TIME, April 10). The protest was ignored but the musicians who signed it had their phonograph records and radio broadcasts banned from Germany. And able Otto Klemperer was ousted from the Berlin State Opera where he had a contract until...
...years on end we at Gimbels have been thinking that we were telling the truth. . . . But what we have been telling was, so to speak, 'commercial truth'. . . . We told you that a certain portable phonograph was light, that it had a good tone. carried so many records, came in several colors, and was very inexpensive. Those statements were absolutely accurate. We failed to tell you that because the phonograph was light and was inexpensive, the motor was not strong enough to give more than a few seasons' wear. Hereafter we will tell you this. In other words...
...Yale University was its first home but Brown University offered more spacious quarters. Dr. Kurath is now chairman of Brown's Germanic languages department. The Linguistic Atlas began expediting its work last autumn with a new, cheap recording instrument which makes aluminum discs playable on any phonograph. A pioneer recorder, not actively connected with the Atlas, is Barnard's Professor William Cabell Greet. He has recorded Maine farmers, Blue Ridge mountaineers, Barnard girls, Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith, Nicholas Murray Butler, the late Poet Vachel Lindsay, the London Naval Conference and the late Calvin Coolidge ("perfect Connecticut Valley...