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  • Boehm's bill would require school district employees or board members who know about an instance of off-campus bullying to tell the school principal, who would then have to bring it up with the parents of both bully and victim within 48 hours.

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  • Boehm's bill would require school district employees or board members who know about an instance of off-campus bullying to tell the school principal, who would then have to bring it up with the parents of both bully and victim within 48 hours.

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  • Why, just today I heard some school-children fighting over who got to borrow Boehm's recording.

    Der völkische Tomfoolerei Patrick J. Smith 2006

  • Why, just today I heard some school-children fighting over who got to borrow Boehm's recording.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Patrick J. Smith 2006

  • In Boehm's flute, his ingenious mechanism allows the production of the eleven chromatic semitones intermediate between the fundamental note of the flute and its first harmonic, by holes so disposed that, in opening them successively, they shorten the column of air in exact proportion.

    Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various

  • Improvements, applied by Clinton, Pratten, and Carte, have introduced certain modifications in the fingering, while retaining the best features of Boehm's system.

    Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various

  • In Grove's "Dictionary," I have given an approximate date to his overstringing as 1835, but reference to Boehm's correspondence with

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various

  • Much has been done to graft Boehm's system of fingering upon the clarinet, but the thirteen key system, invented early in this century by Iwan Muller, is still most employed.

    Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various

  • Triebert, a skillful Parisian maker, tried to adapt Boehm's reform of the flute to the oboe, but so far as the geometrical division of the scale was concerned, he failed, because it altered the characteristic tone quality of the instrument, so desirable for the balance of orchestral coloration.

    Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various

  • Boehm's flute, however, has not remained as he left it.

    Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various

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