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...which in the Middle Ages was regarded as the work of the devil. This discord is the augmented fourth (example: C and F sharp on the piano), was called the tritone because it spans three whole tones. The tritone was banned in sacred music, thus giving rise to a maxim: Mi contra fa est diabolus in musica (The tritone is the devil in music). When the sirens, beginning on a sweet major third or fifth, slip up and down into the bloodcurdling tritone, it sounds that way to Londoners...
Equally surprising to tuberculosis experts was a recent survey among 65,459 individuals on home relief in New York City's grey belt-lower Harlem. Active cases were found for 3.3% white females, 2.2% Negro females, 5.3% white males, 3.2% Negro males. Knocked west was a longtime maxim: the Negro suffers from racial susceptibility to t.b. Nevertheless the Negro tuberculosis death rate is still five times that of the white race, possibly due to lower living standards and less medical attention. This apparent paradox showed the impossibility of estimating t.b. among the living from t.b. mortality tables-a conclusion...
...beauty that has not a foundation in use, soon grows distasteful, and needs continual replacement with something else." This maxim would sound serviceable to most modern designers of functional furniture. It was devised by devout, unlettered members of the communistic religious sect who called themselves Shakers. Kindled by the ardor of Ann Lee, a mystic Englishwoman who led a band of six men and two women to the U. S. in 1774, the Shakers took as their motto "Hands to work and hearts to God." They labored, shook away their sins, grew and flourished mainly in colonies in eastern...
...limousine and trailer. "Mr. Windsor" tarried ashore with Portuguese Banker Espirito Santo (Holy Spirit) Silva, who had been host to the Duke & Duchess. The Excalibur waited, and on the pier waited the British Ambassador to Portugal and Lady Selby, the British Minister Sir Noel Charles. Royal Maxim No. 1 is "Punctuality is the politeness of kings," but Windsor was a solid 40 minutes late, rolled up at last with Banker Holy Spirit Silva, embarked with his staff of three, all Old Etonians...
Litvinoff Era. Having embarked upon the collective security method of pursuing her objective of peace, Russia gave it all she had. Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff became one of the most active, consistent delegates to the League, repeatedly astounded his colleagues with the proposal that everybody disarm. But almost from the moment that she entered the League, Russia saw the principle of collective security sold out time after time...