Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recent investigations in the psychological laboratory have demonstrated that every good singer uses the vibrato, not only on sustained notes, but on short notes and glides. What musical critics object to is the tremolo. We are prepared to show that the vibrato is used by every one of the Metropolitan opera singers in at least 95% of his intonations; that the vibrato of these singers consists of a pitch oscillation around the heard pitch averaging about one-half musical step in extent; that it also expresses itself in loudness and timbre pulsations; that one-half of the best song tones...
...appeal to small banks, was offered by Distributors Group, Inc. ¶ Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. offered Supervised Shares, Inc., a trust which can buy or sell any or all of a list of 56 approved common stocks. If holders of 25% or more of the stock do not object, the trust may also buy other securities...
...course, primarily for graduates, is to be given during the next half-year for the first time. It will be based on the theory of relative frequency, already developed by Dr. Zipf in studies appearing in 1929 and in the spring of this year, but not previously made the object of a course. Discussion will not be limited to philological changes, for the formula, Frequency times Intensity is Constant, can be applied not merely to language but to all changes in the manner of human expression, and is, in the view of its author, the significant basis of such changes...
Through three rather long acts interest is maintained by shifting the object of attention subtly and effectively. First the persecutor's alibi depends upon a green chartreuse bottle, then an overcoat button, and finally upon establishing the presence of the same blood on a pair of gloves and a knife. Suspense rises to a pitch at the end of the first scene in act three; the last two scenes are lamentably weak perhaps because of their brevity. The author has injected several squibs in the Shavian manner, such as "today women are either supermen or twittering neurasthenics," which neither pass...
...revolutionist, His Grace emphasized that Scottish secession is not his object but solemnly declared: "The question of self-government for Scotland has grown from a purling stream into a roaring cataract...