Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times Book Review, Pianist Artur Rubinstein wrote a tart review of French Novelist Andre Gide's Notes on Chopin. Sample Rubinstein pan: "... a long and pretentious music lesson, apparently written by a frustrated and embittered amateur pianist who has tried in vain to dominate the difficult keyboard for the last sixty years...
...composer who discovered his special niche at the keyboard at seven, with his first polonaise, and seldom strayed from it. His family and friends implored him to write operas, symphonies, oratorios. But he called the piano "my solid ground; on that I stand the strongest." His compositions, with their poetry, fire and freshness, never came easily: "Before I have said my last word, I must go through horrible pangs and tribulations, with many tears and sleepless nights...
...Government Regulation of Industry," is a good course under an expert showman (Emerson D). Finley's breathless lectures in Humanities 2 are rated among the College's best (Fogg Large Room). Music 1, under Davison, convenes in Paine Hall. Failings in the lectures are compensated for by the frequent keyboard illustrations. Dream course for auditors, Allport meets Social Relations 1a in New Lecture Hall. One of the top elementary courses in the College. Also in Social Relations, Sorokin's lectures are an experience not to be missed. "Contemporary Sociological Theory," S.R. 113, in Emerson...
...operator pushes buttons alongside the standard typewriter keyboard of the desk-size machine to select the desired type size and style, types the line, corrects any mistakes. Then, by a combination of an electronic memory and an electric eye, the machine automatically "justifies" the line, i.e., spaces it to fit flush in the column, and transfers it to a film on a rotating drum. At six letters a second, it can set twelve newspaper lines a minute, three times average linotype speed. Automatically developed, the film is ready for photoengraving...
...coding box" consists of a six by ton foot panel of over 200 keys, each with a number or mathematical symbol on it, Using the keyboard with its familiar symbols, a mathematician can record on a magnetic tape all the commands the machine needs to solve his problem. Essentially, he "copies" his equations on the keys of the coding machine. When fed into the machine, his commands are then transferred from the magnetic tape to the sequence drum which then controls the operations necessary to solve the problem...