Word: types
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electric harpsichord, in which the sounding board has been replaced by guitar-type pickups leading to an amplifier. Special switches allow the player to transform the instrument's traditional tinkle into approximations of a vibraphone, a guitar and even a banjo. Admits the manufacturer, Baldwin Piano and Organ Co.: "There's not much left in the harpsichord that Bach would recognize besides the name...
...contention that generic-name drugs are potent and acceptable, they have also admitted that they cannot really sort out what is equal to what in the pullulating pill market. No one, it appears, has run a comprehensive test on an entire family of drugs, such as the cortisone-type hormones, which show fantastic price spreads, to see how they really compare in medical effectiveness. Not until laboratory experts agree on how to do that-and then do it-will it be possible to say which cheap drugs are as good as their expensive counterparts...
...undoubtedly the most thrilling aspect of the archives are the documents which Trotsky has written and then revised. When he wanted to insert an extra paragraph into an article or chapter, he would type it out on a separate piece of paper and the paste it on to the edge of the original. This appendage could then be folded over to leave the document in its original size. In many cases the urge to make additional points led him to add appendage to appendage until a document, which can be folded down to a convenient eight inches by ten inches...
Mason Hammond is the stalwart professor of "Gladiators," as his winter course in Roman History is known. He has got a fascinating subject in "The City in the Ancient World," and he is reputed to be even more delighted in a seminar-type course than he is on the podium. This course, by the way, should not be overly rugged...
With furrowed brow, Williams called for a $10,000 ceiling on all direct farm subsidies. "Based upon these large payments," he said, "it is obvious that the small family-type farmer is not the real beneficiary of our present farm program, but rather the Government is subsidizing an expansion of the corporate type of farming operation...