Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daily Tar Heel, undergraduate newspaper of the University of North Carolina, The Columbia Spectator is the best college newspaper in this country and Canada. Among other tidbits in his article, the Tar Heel's editorial chairman declares that "the current depression has exercised little effect on the tone and quality of collegiate journalism...
...Society initiated a trend which is the cinema equivalent of the Little Theatre movement. Already it has a lusty rival: the Film Forum, headed by Playwright Sidney Howard, which last fortnight gave as its first presentation the German picture M, directed by Fritz Lang. Vaguely pinkish in political tone, the Film Forum hopes to use a profit from its admission rate of $5 for six pictures, for producing "documentary" films...
...Psychopathic Hospital and Archibald R. Buchanan of the Department of Anatomy, cut the heads from a couple of dead men, suspended the heads by wires from a ceiling and up through the severed necks blew puffs of air. The sounds which the heads emitted confirmed the cavity tone theory of vowel production...
...from hour examinations should be given further trial; and thee is the old land grave question of how many financially dependent students the College can absorb with benefit both to the institution and to the individual. Problems have arisen and have been met; throughout the whole there is a tone of complacent success which one associates with the annual reports of Harvard's executives...
Overnight the tone of talk in "The City"?London's Wall Street?changed utterly last week. Bitterness at Uncle Shylock changed to pride that John Bull had paid. Fear lest the pound fall vanished as Sterling rose slightly in terms of both the dollar and the franc. England was herself again. Blood had told. Hands across the sea. Honi soit qui mal y pense...