Word: phonographic
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...Crawfordsville Symphony played originally from borrowed scores, now has a library with a good standard repertory, proudly negotiates a complete symphony at every concert. Wabash College has a Capehart phonograph and a collection of records-gifts of the Carnegie Corporation-which enable the orchestra to hear how the world's big orchestras perform the works in its library. At weekly rehearsals the Crawfordsville musicians often play out of tune, get lost, wheeze and whiffle, come in at the wrong places, and competing basketball games lure away many a player. But as concert nights approach, attendance and teamwork improve...
...Elgin, Ill., Mrs. Beulah Kemp, 38, underwent a routine operation: the extraction of an inch-long phonograph needle from her insides, the twelfth in the past 23 years. Vexed, Mrs. Kemp has no idea where the needles come from or how they get inside...
...Bronxites and Brooklynites at the drop of an r, located Manhattanites within a few blocks of their homes. Once he spotted the influence of a French school in a naturalized American woman whose accent sounded normally German to ordinary listeners. Dr. Smith has learned his trade from books and phonograph records, has more difficulty with the pronunciations of his native Baltimore than with New Yorkese...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
...present Sendak is recording two or three minute speeches on phonograph records, which will be sent west to be played at political meetings. Home town papers have made much of the fact that he has sold his saxaphone to help defray his expenses...