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...current then flows through a filter which regulates the timbre. This filter is run by a miniature keyboard and works like button-tuning on radio sets; by pressing one button, instead of getting WLW or KNX, the pusher gets cello or clarinet. Next the current flows into the amplifier, controlled by a foot pedal, finally comes out of the loudspeaker. If done properly, it comes out as music...
...wonder is not that an occasional piece of copy or film gets stuck in the censorship filter, but that so much news gets through as swiftly as it does. Into the filter the 800 correspondents accredited to SHAEF, plus numerous unaccredited correspondents in Britain, now pour every week approximately 3,000,000 words, 35,000 still pictures, 100,000 feet of movie film...
...decided to do what they could, voted to accept Negroes on the medical staff, added several Negro trustees. When the staff was told of the move, two nurses and three other workers quit. But the white doctors held fast. Last February, Negro doctors began work, Negro patients began to filter into private rooms (10-20%) and semiprivate (25%). The hospital's management, worried about mixing races in semiprivate rooms, still asks each patient whether he objects; so far none has balked...
With the railroads bombed out, German units struggling northward had to rely on difficult mountain roads under constant guerrilla attack. German columns often zigzagged, swung now right, now left, were sometimes forced to retrace their steps to try another escape route. Others tried to filter northward in guerrilla fashion, through forests at night, occasionally donning civilian clothes...
Last week there was hope that the London conferences had not stalled. Reports of the armistice terms began to filter out before the official announcement. The general outline of the terms, as they were reported...