Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Engineer-Composer Oskar Sala. is a complicated monster operated by pressing the fingers on two strings through which runs a weak electric current. By shifting his fingers along the strings much like a violinist and by working switches and pedals, the player can-at least theoretically-produce notes and pre-set chords of every imaginable color, frequency and strength. But so far the Mixturtrautonium can be played only by Engineer Sala...
...British writers of the time were inclined to ignore the fact. Lewis Carroll never reconciled himself to Tenniel's drawings for Alice in Wonderland, which seem so right as to be almost inevitable. Tennyson, who did not care for art, was simply indifferent to the best efforts of Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt to illustrate his poems. William Thackeray, Edward Lear and W. S. Gilbert were better pleased, for they illustrated their own work...
...plush quarters for the football team, at least not for this season. Prospects for a special pre-season training camp at Red Top--pre-Yale crew training quarters--or at a Duxbury summer camp have fallen through...
Final Triumph. Even such heroic action did not make the Viking1 fly until May 3. When it did, its power shut off pre maturely, and it rose only 50 miles, instead of the expected 100 miles or more...
Died. Owen Josephus Roberts, 80, broad-shouldered, broad-gauged Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1930-45) who gained a reputation as the court's "swing man" by voting independently of either liberal or conservative factions in the pre-Roosevelt court, later shifted to a more conservative position under the New Deal; of a heart attack; at his home near Phoenixville, Pa. Plainspoken, scholarly Owen Roberts won fame as prosecutor in the 1924 Teapot Dome scandal, was named to the high court by Herbert Hoover, eventually became the sole non-Roosevelt appointee. A lifelong Republican and anti-isolationist...