Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cross pattern. Fewer strings for each note are needed: high notes on the "Claviphone" require two. while on a standard piano three are necessary for the proper volume. To each group of five strings is attached a microphone; to each microphone a condenser which regulates the tone. Hammers are smaller than in standard instruments...
...staged in its auditorium, but an effect of intimacy will be sought, it was announced, in the seating arrangements. Instead of a gallery there will be a series of three shallow mezzanines. The rear seats in these will be closer to the stage than are those in many a smaller theatre...
...some cases holdings might be larger; an executive might have a personal investment company in which to carry his GM shares. In other cases the holdings might be smaller, for sometimes an officer of a company wants to sell his stock, thinks it unwise to get his name off the list, therefore quietly takes a short position against his holdings...
Observers noted that though the racing fleet was as numerous as usual the accompanying fleet was smaller than it has been for 30 years. A few big auxiliaries-Cornelius Crane's Illyria, Gerard Lambert's three-master Atlantic, Floyd Leslie Carlisle's Michabo-were ready to follow the races, but of the customary squadron of large steam yachts there were only two: Hiram Edward Manville's Hi-Esmaro and George Fisher Baker's Viking. On board the Viking, because his own flagship Valiant was too small. Commodore Aldrich held a meeting of all captains...
...races against Shamrock V. Skipper Vanderbilt sailed Enterprise but the Aldrich pennant, blue border and blue anchor on a white field, flew from her $40,000 mast. A better sailor than ex-Commodore Astor, Commodore Aldrich maintains no lavish steam yacht like the Nourmahal; his Wayfarer is a smaller but serviceable boat. Like ex-Commodore Vanderbilt, his favorite sport ashore is tennis. One of his brothers, William T. Aldrich, is Commodore of the Eastern Yacht Club at Boston. The New York Yacht Club's Commodore is an affable and patrician boatman, a lively but retiring enthusiast. His bitterest disdain...