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...prevalent in folk music (for example, the notes sounded by the five black keys on the piano), Kodály's method uses games and pictures to introduce painlessly the basic concepts of musical structure and notation. The result is that thousands of students learn to read com plex scores as easily as a column of figures by the time they reach the eighth grade. Best of all, says Kodály, the children become skillful performers on "a beautiful musical instrument"-the hu man voice. He believes that singing not only provides "the best foundation of musicality...
While Social Security is a basically simple pension system, private industry plans vary greatly, and are enormously com plex because of the varying ages of workers, employment turn over, profits, and a score of other factors in every company...
Allied troops were stunned, consternation filled the Allied staffs at the ease with which these metal monsters passed through obstacles built specially to meet them; how they crossed rivers and canals as though these were paved boulevards; how they deployed and wheeled through com plex evolutions with the speed and assurance of mounted cavalry. How did they...
...number of sand grains at Coney Island. One followed by 20 zeros was a satisfactory expression. Dr. Kasner then proposed a greater number, one of his own, which he called a "googol": 1 followed by 100 zeros. He also proposed a much greater number still, a "googol plex": 1 followed by a googol of zeros...
...Manufacturing Co. The A. T. & T., which operates station WEAK, New York, of course, has a practical monopoly of the telephone and telegraph wires, thus enabling it to control by tolls any radio inventions requiring the use of long-distance wires as connecting links, such as the multi-plex telephone and telegraph carrier systems. Also in 1917, before the radio fad had developed, it purchased from Lee DeForest, leading radio inventor, the patent rights of his audion vacuum tube, which is basic to all amplifying systems...