Word: stack
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stack of discs stands waisthigh, big 16-inch transcriptions, some 100 hours of music, a recorded hullabaloo of wails, twangs, drumbeats and gong-whams. It is the biggest mass of raw material that U.S. musicologists and anthropologists have yet had from the East Indies and the South Seas...
...Victor last week made the biggest phonographic news of the year by putting out a machine that could play both sides of a record without flipping it over. Up to now, record changers have been of two types: 1) the "drop" type, which plays a stack of records butter-side up only; 2) the Capehart, which flips records like flapjacks on a griddle. Drawback of the drop type: it cannot play alternate sides in sequence. Drawback of the Capehart: it is expensive...
...record changer has a double tone arm, shaped like a big tuning fork, whose prongs, each equipped with a needle and pickup, swing out over both sides of the record at once. Records are dropped from the stack on to a miniature turntable which leaves the grooved surface of both sides exposed. The upper side of the record is played by the upper prong. Then the record automatically begins to turn backward, and the lower prong plays the lower side. Then the record slips down a chute, and No. 2 drops into place...
...last week Ernest Martin Hopkins flew from Washington, where for five months he has been busy with U.S. defense, to Hanover, N.H. First thing "Hoppy" did was to strip to his shirt sleeves, make himself comfortable. Then he read a stack of telegrams-from Cordell Hull, Wendell Willkie, William S. Knudsen, John D. Rockefeller Jr., President Roosevelt, many another, in honor of his 25th anniversary as Dartmouth's president...
...commotion in the doorway has sounded his triumphant arrival and Nock shuffles up the aisle, tipping his cocked hat to admirers and gayly swinging a useless cane. As he hustles to the platform he appears flustered about the coming performance. He dumps out a stack or books and papers on the table and more or less tears of his monotonous black cloaking, revealing another layer of rumpled blackness. The first communication to the audience may be anything from a grin to an inimitable gargle -- one of those special Nock guttural noises denoting pause and hesitancy. Then a stream of words...