Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demolition of the staid soda bar comes one constructive note for undergraduates. Participants in the exercise classes at the Indoor Athletic Building will be able to observe themselves in action in the near future, thanks to the gift of the now defunet large mirror behind the fountain to the University...
...standard yardstick" of music, to which instruments are tuned, is the "true A": a note with 440 vibrations a second. Musicians have now acquired an accurate, electronic gadget for sounding their...
Conductor George Szell of the Cleveland Orchestra first got him interested in the A problem. What orchestras needed for tuning purposes, Pickering decided, was a pure, unvarying note with no overtones. No ordinary loudspeaker (and no musical instrument) emits pure tones: what comes out is a mixture of dominant tone and any number of overtones...
What was that kind of talk? It was "Ba Gu," said the Daily Worker last week. The Communist daily, an old Ba Gu addict if there ever was one, swore off the filthy stuff. Originally, said a learned note in the Worker's "Recruiter" column, Ba Gu was a Manchu civil-service test which "had no content at all but had to conform to very strict rules of form and rhetoric." Now the Chinese Communists were against it, and so> was the Daily Worker...
When the Communist Daily Worker faced suspension, the Times lent it 16 tons of paper. The Worker ran a thank-you note, but some of the Times's readers took it to task. The Times added comfortably: "We think democracy . . . strong enough to withstand any verbal blows ... by the Daily Worker, and we think that proof of this strength can best be provided by permitting [it] to keep on talking...