Word: phonographic
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...colleen?" the Vagabond repeated several times, much like a badly-scratched phonograph record. He had learned that repetition was the polite way of confessing ignorance. With no little sense of awe and appreciation of his luck he was walking with Byron Piccup along the bechildrened pavements in front of Dunster House; a few feet ahead lay their destination in the form of a lighted, whistling popcorn and hotdog stand. Yes, with Byron Piccup...
...been studying magnetic waves in the Arctic for three years. They will have an immense assortment of equipment: four tons or so of powdered chicken and similar foodstuffs, brandy, tea, caviar, a windmill to generate electricity for power, light, and cooking, skis, wolf-pelt sleeping bags, guns, sledges, a phonograph with 15 records, radio, chess set, cigarets (cigars for holidays), cameras, books, and a dog to warn of bears. Everything will be divided into five caches so that a sudden crumpling of the ice-floe cannot cause disaster...
Although the unit has been practicing with canned music, amplified from a phonograph, negotiations are pending for procuring a regular Army band for the occasion. There is a possibility that the services of the 13th Infantry Band may be obtained from Fort Devens...
...Prestes were both from Sao Paulo which was then sorely handicapped by the collapse of the world coffee market and unable to fight back. Since most of Brazil's 20 States, which figure in the world market only with such specialties as cocoa, Brazil nuts or carnauba wax (phonograph records), are merely so many jungle-choked, politically impotent drains on the Federal Treasury, this shift provoked no outcry. Rebellious Paulistas were brought to terms when the Federal Navy tied up Sao Paulo's harbor city of Santos, kept their grey-green mountains of coffee impounded until they cried...
Edward K. Rand '04, professor of Latin, in collaboration with Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '02, has made a collection of ten double-faced phonograph records, illustrating selections from the finest passages of Latin prose and poetry. Each record will be accompanied by a pamphlet giving the Latin text and idiomatic translation. The price will be $2.50 each. The passages are chosen from Plautus, Lucrotius, Catullus, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Ovid, Pliny, Juvonal, and Tacitus...