Word: blending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because of any idealistic reason that men in the Engineering School should be part of the House Plan. It is not because their "scientific training" will blend with any "academic culture" to produce the ideal broad-minded Harvard man that their presence therein is desirable. The idea of a cross-section has been pretty well dispelled this year. The broadening influence of the House Plan can fairly well be termed an educational dream. It is, however, because Engineering School students are Harvard undergraduates as much as the men in the College that their inclusion in the House Plan...
...director of research in acoustics for American Steel & Wire Co., Chicago, reported that he had taken ''sound portraits" of the largest cities for the Chicago Noise Commission. Using the Westinghouse osiso which photographs sound. Dr. White found that 15 stories above ground the numerous small city jangles blend into a definite form, a characteristic ground tone. Each city sings differently, depending upon the number and arrangement of its skyscrapers, trolley wires, tracks, lamp posts. Said Dr. White: "The pitch of London's voice is low C. New York's is like the singing of a wire...
...omissions: speakeasies. Natu rally M. Morand is too polite to mention them by name, but he is not too polite to damn them generically. Says he : "I know nothing so depressing. . . . If only one could drink water there!" Of Manhattan's big cinemas, he thinks the Paramount "a blend of St. Peter's at Rome, the Parthenon, and the Valley of the Kings": Roxy's he says "surpasses the impossible...
Although seventy-one years old, this great Polish master is still capable of the most difficult programs. On Tuesday he will play a most delightful blend of classical and modern music. Beethoven's Sonata in D minor followed by selections from Brahms and Handel, and then four sketches. Debussy will comprise the well balanced program...
...main points: use only wine grapes, protect the liquid from contact with the air, blend...