Word: strings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...find breweries, Mr. Dengler advises trailing "trucks delivering wort* or other supplies. Various expedients may be used. Officers have used a pail of sand fastened to the axle. A hole in the bottom and plug with a string attached to the wheel completes the outfit which makes the sand trail when the truck starts. Others have taken speedometer readings to get an idea as to the distance covered. ... A man or boy on a bicycle can follow a truck without suspicion...
...Crampton his sixth and eighth. Casey missed his twelfth, leaving young King ahead until he missed his 14th. Then Casey missed his 19th, Scott and King shot along even until the 22nd bird. There Scott cracked, dropped three birds in a row while young King coolly ran out his string for the championship...
Carpets. Most famed Persian rug is "The Emperor's Hunting Carpet," woven in the 16th century reign of Tahmasp Shah who was to Persian art as was Louis XIV to French. A border string of clear gold cartouches separates the ruby field from the main border. Vines rise in colliding spirals of great blossoms, leaves, tendrils. Wild animals fight. Shah Abbas the Great presented it to Russia about 1600, Tsar Peter the Great to Habsburg Leopold...
...attempting to prevent baby confusion, maternity hospitals write the baby's family name on a piece of adhesive tape and fix it to the infant's body; or fasten a string of lettered beads or stamped metal tag to the child's neck and mother's wrist; or both. Registering a newborn's foot prints is not very reliable, because foot prints are not distinctive for some time after birth. Newborn children clench their fists so tightly that finger prints cannot be made. Dr. Kegel last week suggested a novel idea: stencil the infant's foot in suntan from...
Schubert's Concerto in A Minor by 'Cellist Caspar Cassado and Symphony Orchestra under Sir Hamilton Harty (Columbia, $6)-A compatriot and pupil of Famed Pablo Casals contributes an excellent arrangement of a sonata written for piano and arpeggione (string instrument between a viola and a 'cello in size; invented in Vienna in Schubert's day' seldom played...