Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explosion's results: Four of the Langley's men badly injured and a dead man (Chief Carpenter's Mate James Raynor Ailsworth) identifiable only by his Masonic ring; a ragged split in the Langley's plane-landing top deck...
...small black box rested on a stand. From its top projected a metal rod approximately twelve inches high; from its side projected a horizontal metal ring. Before the box stood a thin, blond Russian, Professor Leo Theremin of State Physical Institute of Leningrad. He placed his right hand near the upright rod; a musical note streamed from the box. He wiggled his right fingers; chords and phrases danced from the box. He moved his left hand towards the horizontal ring; the music roared deeply. He removed his left hand; the music whispered forth...
...electrical tension of the whole set, just so Professor Theremin altered the electro tension of the electro-magnet fields within his box. The precision with which he built his contrivance permitted him to extract, not amateur squeals, but harmonious musical sounds. (Gestures with his left hand about the horizontal ring were the equivalent of turning the amplifying knob of a receiving...
...gives in his thumbnail introductions vivid pictures of the times and the people that produced them. "Drivin' Steel" comes from the mountaineers of East Tennessee. It is a working class song straight from men on the job, uttered to muscular body rhythms. One can almost hear the ring of steel on steel. There is a heave of shoulders, deep breath control, the touch of hands on a familiar well-worn hammer handle...
...Will Rogers should choose to throw his hat in the ring as a candidate for a job more pretentious than being mayor of Beverly Hills, the chances are that comparatively few people would take him seriously, himself perhaps least of all. Such is the power of reputation. And yet it is probable that there is some fire behind the smoke, and that if the movement in California is at all strong Will Rogers might become a Senator. And if he is judged worthy by his own State, the possibility would be by no means unfortunate. For the point on which...