Word: strad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Violin makers, even chemists and acoustical engineers, have taken Stradivari's instruments apart to see what makes them so good. One theory is that the unusually lustrous and transparent varnish Stradivari used had something to do with the Strad tone. But Antonio Stradivari's secret, like his grave, is still undiscovered. Where those bones are today, and what makes a Strad a Strad, nobody knows...
...Riverside & Dan River Mills strad dle the Dan River, are connected by covered concrete bridges. Normally the personnel numbers 4,500 operatives. President Fitzgerald, whose father was one of the company's founders, started at 17 to work in the plant. When he became its head he organized the mills into a thoroughgoing industrial "republic" with himself as president. He built a $250,000 Y. M. C. A. for his workers, supplied them with neat houses, free electricity. Because he believes that his deafness was caused by poor medical attention when he was a boy, he provided plant doctors...