Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concert Mr. Whiting will play the harpsichord, the key board instrument which preceded the pianoforte, so that the audience may hear the exact sound of the music as it was written by the composers in the latter part of the eighteenth century. As the harpsichord is rarely used today, Mr. Whiting's performance will be a novelty full of unique and beautiful effects, a knowledge of which is essential to a proper understanding of the old music...
...Harding were entertained by farmers, Mormon elders, cowboys, pioneers, Indians?as far as Alaska. There Mr. Harding became ill?the first untoward event of the trip. Then homeward they came; a glorious stop at Vancouver; a collision at night with a destroyer in the mists of Puget Sound; a review of the fleet; a terribly strenuous day in Seattle; indigestion; bronchial pneumonia; abrupt termination of the trip at San Francisco; a stroke of apoplexy?death. (TIME...
...First National grew enormously under the Forgan touch: its assets from some 49 millions in 1900 to nearly 260 millions in 1915; its deposits from 43 millions to 219 millions in the same period. Its good will and reputation for sound policy increased equally rapidly. Mr. Forgan concerned himself with the character and welfare of his employes, giving fatherly talks and plain advice to each newcomer...
...decisive defeat of Senator La Folette does not sound the death knell of progressivism in America, in the opinion of Professor Munro. He did not consider that the Progressives could continue in existence as a separate party with much success. "But the probability is that one or the other of the old parties, or possibly both will gradually become more progressive in their principles, he went on to state. "A formal coalition of the La Folette-Wheeler supporters with the Democrats is about as possible as for the 'solid South' to go Republican...
...believe that the country will reject all such illusory remedies, from whatever quarter they may be advocated. What it looks for and, from a Liberal Government, will secure, are sound administration, practicable reforms and freedom from constant appeals for its opinion upon fantastic proposals of the extremists on either side." (Message from H. H. Asquith to Scotland...