Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best means for such pitch dissemination would be the radio. The phonograph is unreliable since the slightest variation of the turntable from set speed (78 revolutions per min.) changes the pitch. The veracity of tuning-forks depends upon atmospheric and temperature constancy. Dr. Haselbrunner's convention would put a stop to an occasional practice of recording laboratories, namely, varying the pitch to fit the peculiar abilities of recording artists, a practice distressing to persons with a sense of absolute pitch...
...fifth period, long-legged Winston Guest, U. S. back, was ridden down by Captain Roark, pitched off his white-booted pony, thrown breathless on his back. His brother Raymond hurried out on the field, saw that the injury was not serious, ran back to stop his frantic mother who had come down from the stands to rush to her fallen son. Twice she crossed the planked boundaries, twice Raymond shushed her back. Meantime Son Winston got up, the crowd roared, he got another pony and the game was on again...
...Government, led by President Hoover, last week gave itself over to honoring France's Dieudonné Coste and Maurice Bellonte, first to make the Paris-to-New York non-stop flight (see p. 26). In the rose garden back of the White House President Hoover greeted the Frenchmen in the name of the Nation in a little speech about their returning Col. Lindbergh's visit. Later in the White House was served a State luncheon...
...like corks. . . . Concrete cisterns are being used as funeral pyres, cremating as many as fifty bodies at a time. Even at a distance of ten miles . . . it was apparent that bodies were being burned. When we landed we could see wagons pass by loaded with dead. The drivers would stop and curse and cry: 'More dead, more dead...
...determined to stamp out the agents of the foreign power who are destroying our industry and corrupting our youth. . . . They came here and held meetings in which they mocked God and parodied religion in a most brutal way. We are determined to stop this...