Word: chordings
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...leaves him making political capital out of his vulgar, underbred mick of a son by his first wife (a loyal little shop girl). Author Bronson handles the return of Junior Green & wife like a straight-harmony writer, reintroducing the original theme to shade, sour and yet enrich the final chord. More, he makes the bareness of his story, the concavity of his omissions, act as a sounding board for the overtone of irony...
...lady harpists in trailing black came on the stage first, tinkered with their strings, looked grave as they tested the pedals, plucked a tentative chord or two. Cellists and violinists came next, took chairs on either side of an imposing conductor's stand. Then a brawny man appeared bearing a score twice the size of most. An inner curtain rolled up, disclosing the rest of an enormous orchestra, behind it a bank of faces rising two-thirds of the way to the stage ceiling. Paunchy Tenor Paul Althouse entered with willowy, blonde Soprano Jeannette Vreeland and dark, smiling Contralto...
...three-dimensional geometry the ratio of an arc to its chord is one. (i. e., the arc can become so small as to coincide with its chord.) Professor Edward Kasner of Columbia University projected a four-dimensional geometry, found the ratio could be less than one. More important, he found that the ratio does not diminish steadily as the length of the arc is diminished, but in sudden jumps-from 1 to 0.94 to 0.86 to 0.80. . . . The changes in subatomic energy occur in lumps, and these changes he found to correspond to the diminishing jumps of Ratio...
...Colony can help but be thoroughly enthusiastic over what had promised to be an instructive evening, and what turned out to be a highly entertaining one as well. Seldom in the run of musical efforts that in the present age of canned, uncanned, and uncanny variations of the orphic chord does one find an evening's program which in a light-hearted way gives the listener so genuine a sensation of pleasure...
...Sigma Kappa fraternity at the Uni-versity of Kentucky last week ousted Mc-Chord Christie, 23-year-old senior. He had snooped, tattled, aided Federal agents in raiding a college rooming house and a student-patronized speakeasy. It was pointed out that McChord Christie had himself once engaged in legging. Said he: "I am on the other side now, though, and I am not going to stop until I have cleaned up college bootlegging in Lexington...