Word: distortion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will travel as always in a private car (cost: approximately $25,000), take a three-week vacation in February at his 2,600-acre ranch in Paso Robles, Calif. His performances are bound to be uneven. He will bang on the piano unmercifully at times, hit wrong notes, distort the text. But Paderewski has never been a faultless technician. His instrument sometimes magnifies his colossal ideas but occasionally it fails...
...that remain very likely will be in time. The difficulty of fusing quartz for so large a mirror at the great temperature required, the problem of supplying heat for such an undertaking, and the ultimate question of how to mount such a heavy thing without having it bend and distort the curvature--all these are as yet not definitely solved, but they will soon be considered...