Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...songsters from the parochial schools, was given Bach's Passion According to St. John. The chorals were excellently sung in a score which has never been popular in the U. S. On the third day, Frederick Stock, conductor of the Chicago Symphony, conducted his own Symphonic Variations-a sound, scholarly piece of uninspired craftsmanship. Florence Austral, Australian soprano who has sung Wagnerian rôles in London, resoundingly delivered Brahms' Requiem. On the fourth day, Pierné's St. Francis of Assis furnished Tenor Edward Johnson an opportunity to demonstrate that an intelligent singer can make even...
...Stagers, a new group of workers for the "Better Things," gave the play an acceptable production. Warren William, a discovery of theirs, looks like John Barrymore, and brought to the central part a personality that whispers of a sound future. For students and for sincere followers of the stage, the production is almost a necessity. The general public will probably regard it as an unnecessary bore...
...magazine* than that for which Author Connell writes, lines of fiery poetry are often encountered, drooping through their allotted space a syllable at a time, like the languid descending streamers of bored rockets. They are the lines of Poet Cummings. Words, he realizes, have four dimensions?contour, connotation, color, sound. In ordinary poetry, the dray work of supporting the context and of conforming to the conventionalities of a pattern maim these values, render words absurd as a medium of meticulous art. Therefore, he arranges them in bizarre groups, droops them across a page, lets their meaning depend largely upon their...
During the war, Professor Lemaire was in charge of the French government wireless station at Bordeaux. He also conducted personally numerous researches on the application of submarine acoustics and made notable discoveries in connection with the effect of sound upon opaque materials, the shape of horns for acoustic instruments, the assembling of receptive membranes and marine microphones, as well as the first oscillographs of propellor vibrations. He is also responsible for an important study of musical acoustics, the significance of which led the French government to commend him and recommend his pursuance of the subject...
...difficult than that of any other sport. Confidence adds many lengths to a crew's speed. The present policies of the athletic authorities combined with the leadership of the present coaching personnel has instilled this much needed confidence; and speed has been the result. On the basis of a sound rowing technique and a sound rowing psychology Harvard's hopes for victory on the Thames in June may be built high...