Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Instead of string and wind instruments, the Javanese produce their music with a complex system of gongs, bells and celestas, achieving a cohesion of rhythm beyond the hopes of an occidental orchestra." Different gamalongs, said Stokowski in an awed whisper, played long, complicated programs in different courtyards without leaders and without mistakes. "I tried," said the leader of the Philadelphia Symphony, "to arrange with a Javanese prince to send his entire orchestra of several hundred to Philadelphia . . . they are splendidly barbaric...
...Problems do not get easier as the World grows older. The extraordinary multiplicity of plants and animals is astounding. What an imagination the Creator must have had! Our growth of knowledge of the planetary system shows that everything is governed by one system of law. Order permeates all space which leads us to postulate the existence of some great being who controls...
...Small exhibitors have in the past been obliged to accept "block" booking, a collection of tedious pictures with some good ones. The Federal Trade Commission investigated the system, found it pernicious, forbade it, denounced the burly distributors. But block booking continues...
...outskirts of a Pennsylvania city he has built a large swimming pool, containing salt water. Every two weeks the water is renewed and two tons of salt are used to make the solution sufficiently saline. In the salt manufacturer's house there is a salt water system, so that the benefits of synthetic ocean bathing may be enjoyed without leaving the privacy of one's bathroom...
...error. Saltman Fuller has no salt water system in his home. He has a device, however, for softening hard water...