Word: air
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...boat house things presented a dreary spectacle. When the crew went down at 4 o'clock the wind had swung around to the west, and the air, filled with driving snow, was growing colder. The snow was falling so thickly that the Weld Boat House could hardly be seen. The water in front of the boat house was thick with snow, and a few pieces of ice were floating down the river...
...view of the rather heavy ending of the concert, it was perhaps wise to put in the light and charming air from Bach's Suite in D, although it made the programme somewhat too long. In the air Mr. Kneisel played the solo violin with wonderful charm and grace, receiving almost or quite as much applause as the solo pianist. The last piece was Brahms' Second Symphony, in D. which is less labored and fatiguing than the other symphonies of this composer. The playing of the orchestra in the symphony was very different from what it had been...
...Their pursuit of this idea was characterized by the most remarkable directness of purpose and perseverance. The result was monotheism. Many generations of men "toiled in thought" before the world arrived at that conception of one over-ruling deity which is as natural to us as the air we breath. At the time of the prophets the thinking men of all nations were engaged in an intense and almost vain struggle to grasp the idea of one God. Great minds, like Plato, rose at times to a clear monotheistic conception. But the people of all nations save one were wandering...
Shea '94, bow, 165. Has rowed in the B. A. A. crew. Does not control his recover, nor let his arms swing out freely, but keeps them at a constant angle with his body so as to raise his oar high in the air at the full reach...
...movement, and especially through these associations as a movement up or down in space. This is an important source of musical expressiveness. Any single sound having distinct pitch we shall call a Note, without distinct pitch a Noise. The physical cause of a note is a regularly periodic air vibration, irregular vibration causing noise. To this difference in their origin is to be referred the aesthetic superiority of notes to noises. The pitch of a note is higher as the vibration causing it is faster. The lowest pitch is produced by about 16 vibrations per second, the highest by about...