Word: pistons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helped develop such things as aircraft valves containing liquid sodium inside as a coolant; an engine valve cap that turns slightly with each strike, thus eliminating warping and pitting; an alcohol-water injection system to get more power out of gasoline; simplified valve tappets; improved fuel pumps and piston rings...
Establishment of a new jazz society, whose purpose is "to create an atmosphere here at Harvard that will foster an appreciation of the idiom," was announced last night by its provisional president, Thomas B. Wilson, Jr. '54. The faculty sponsors will be Walter H. Piston '24, professor of Music, and Allen D. Sapp, Jr., head section man in Music...
...Piston said the relation between the names of his chair and the foundation is purely coincidental...
...Piston graduated summa cum laude from the College in 1924 and was awarded Harvard's John Knowles Paine Fellowship from...
Professor Walter H. Piston, Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music, this week received the 1953 Naumberg Award for his Fourth Symphony. The award provides funds to enable Piston to have a major orchestra record his work...