Word: heightening
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...executed in the same monotone. Only in the lupine eye of Vanzetti, and the good natured face of Governor Fuller does the artist reveal Life triumphant over Obsession. Such phases as the family of the condemned man as they were in Italy, and after the verdict had been pronounced heighten the scientific interest...
Professor F. B. Crawford, of the Physics Department, denied that the presence of water in the small room would heighten the melodic effect, but stated that hard walls acted as excellent resonators and in this way tended to increase the total effect of sound. He further added that, with the exception of wartime, the only occasion when Englishmen abandoned their traditional reserve was in the bath...
...cock-fighting, sword-thrusting, chin-chucking days are gone never to return. A hard-breathed "gadsblood" man will never heighten the tension of mortal conflict more. Beroic gestures are out of fashion and with them have gone the verbal trappings which were one of the chief compensations for the inadequate plumbing fixtures of the middle ages. The radio and the movie have finished the levelling process of democracy. The human sea of derbied heads stretches out far into the middle west with no crown or crested helm to arrest the eye. Can all romance have gone forever? In his soul...
...must be admitted," wrote the strongly pro-Court New York Times, "that this almost equal division . . . when asked to interpret a treaty, does not heighten its prestige...
...endeavor must be made," urged the Royal Commission, "to enhance the efficiency, to heighten earnings and to improve conditions of life. . . . Poverty leads to bad conditions and inefficiency, inefficiency and bad conditions to poverty." Thus the Royal Commission discovered a 20th Century vicious circle similar to the mystic Hindu Wheel of Karma: a series of events everlastingly repeating each other from which the only escape is violently to break the wheel...