Word: phonographers
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Barzun agreed with the Student Council reports on general education that the issue of allotting college budgets to research rather than to teaching was the vital one in connection with the death of tutorial. "To be more than a phonograph," he admitted, "a teacher has to keep abreast of research in his field and do some original thinking...
...reduced to living in a $175-a-month Manhattan apartment. Last week tradesmen were boldly presuming to offer her jobs-the tabloid New York Daily News announced, with a frightful leer, that Reggie Vanderbilt's 40-year-old widow had been asked to peddle phonograph needles at "$50 a jab." And to make it all practically unendurable, her own daughter, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, with a fortune of $4,500,000, refused to give her a penny. Things hadn't been so embarrassing since the time, twelve years ago, when she was loudly called unfit, and lost custody...
...this super-combination: a Bendix washer, a two years' supply of nylons, a 1946 Mercury, a Knabe piano, a $1,000 fur coat, a round trip to New York with a weekend at the Waldorf, a Tappan kitchen range, a Crosley Shelvador refrigerator, an RCA Victor radio-phonograph, an Electrolux vacuum cleaner, a Bulova wrist watch, a $1,000 diamond ring, maid service for a year, two complete men's wardrobes, a two-week vacation in the Canadian Rockies...
Schoolboy Michael learned the Haydn symphony by playing it over & over again on the phonograph, then trying parts on the piano. Newsmen asked him about his musical plans. Said he: "I think I'm a little young yet just...
...wife Francesca had never seen De Gasperi in a more abominable temper. After a fortnight of fever and frustration, he threatened to form a five-party government. While the neighbor's phonograph played, he drafted a tentative list of ministers. Then much-enduring Alcide de Gasperi fainted...