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Word: viol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gilhens will modulate a tuba, Dr. LeCorbeilor will filter a bass viol Dr. Tatum will amplify a saxophone, and Mr. Schwetman will blast away on a hot cornet. The faculty is combing the electrons out of its hair and students are invited to witness and heckle at the performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELECTRONICS, RADAR CLASSES WILL HAVE PARTY TOMORROW | 8/6/1943 | See Source »

...heard at the Sanders Theatre Concert on Sunday with the Boston Society playing compositions ranging from 16th Century dances to Handel on a descant violin, a treble violin, a viola da gamba, and a violone. All of these look very similar to modern instruments except the viola da gamba ("Viol of the leg") which is a small 'cello resting on the knee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC B0X | 8/6/1943 | See Source »

...canon of Washington, D.C.'s great unfinished Episcopal Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul. He had since learned what battle action was like. One afternoon last September, when the 14,700-ton Wasp was struck by three Jap torpedoes and twanged like the string of a bass viol, Chaplain Williams had pitched in to help move the wounded across surging decks, heat-pocked with six-inch blisters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Flat-Top Chaplain | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...fans began to call her "another Patty Berg." Like Patty, Betty is a tomboy, was an outstanding softball player on the West Coast before taking up golf four years ago. On the side, she plays the bass viol, draws cartoons, writes sport features for her hometown newspaper, the Long Beach Press-Telegram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Another Patty Berg? | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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