Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment that they were being fooled. Programs told them that they would hear a Bach Prelude, the Chromatic Fantasio and Fugue, Beethoven's Pathétique sonata, Mendelssohn's Rondo Capricioso, six Chopin pieces. On the stage was a grand piano with a man-sized keyboard and to play it there appeared a chubby little girl who, if she had not been so self-possessed, would have looked as if she had wandered there by mistake on the way home from a children's party...
After syphilis had destroyed the hearing of the late great Composer Ludwig van Beethoven, that melancholy genius discovered that by clenching a stick in his teeth, holding it against the keyboard of his piano, he could discern faint sounds. Had Beethoven been in Manhattan last week, he could have seen what a century's progress has done to his primitive device...
...Dorothy Dow of Cleveland's West Technical High School who did 96 words a minute. Nevertheless the University of Washington girls' performances helped their professor of education, Dr. August Dvorak, toward fortune. For Dr. Dvorak invented the arrangement of letters and symbols on the typewriter keyboards with which his students won at Chicago. The Dvorak-Dealey* Simplified Keyboard attempts 1) to make both hands do equal amounts of work while typing and 2) to prevent fingers interfering with one another. For example, by study of 35 million digraphs (two-letter combinations) in English words, Professor Dvorak & aides found...
...Dealey, because Dr. Dvorak's brother-in-law, Professor William Learned Dealey, cooperated in the research which led to the keyboard arrangement. †Designed in 1868 by the late Christopher Latham Sholes. **Ten words most commonly misspelled by stenographers (according to Adelaide B. Hakes. technical supervisor of Katharine Gibbs School in Manhattan): procedure; lose; benefited; accommodate; adviser; occurrence; supersede; all right; principal; affect...
...President von Hindenburg," boasted young Dr. Goebbels. "how necessary it was to create such a department. . . . We must create a Press joyously conscious of its responsibility to the Fatherland! . . . We must catch the soul vibrations of the German people. . . . Ach, Meine Herren, think of the Press as a great keyboard on which the Government can play...