Word: slide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the instruments which were added this fall are; five first violins, four second violins, three flutes, two cellos, two clarinets, two trumpets, two bass viols, one oboe, and one slide trombone...
...Zarakov doing most of the ball carrying resulted in the fourth touchdown. Sayles going over from the 2-yard line. Another 35-yard run by Zarakov after the next kick-off put the pigskin on the 3-yard line and only one more play was needed for Zarakov to slide off tackle for the final score of the morning...
Lieutenants Luther S. Smith, John J. Williams and Cyrus Bettis of the Army sat comfortably in their Curtiss pursuit planes and watched the state of Pennsylvania slide by underneath. They were bound from Philadelphia to Selfridge Field (Mount Clemens...
...Paris, L'Enfant et les Sortileges, new opera by Maurice Ravel, had its first performance at the Opera Comique. Critics were doubtful. There were strange harmonies, strange instruments?a rattle, a xylophone, a whip, a nutmeg-grater, a slide flute, a lutheal.? For the first time the Opera Comique orchestra played a fox-trot?for the dance of the Teapot and the Chinese Teacup...
...went. His supercharger (a device for furnishing the mixing-chamber with sea-level conditions) went out of commission at 25,000 feet. Still he climbed. At 35,900 feet his engine balked. He wheeled and began to slide down to Dayton. He had failed by 3,586 feet to break the record of M. Callise, but set a new U. S. record. He said...