Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...antique pagan notions linger in their Catholicism. But the men who run things are noisily, bombastically antireligious. Prompt and bellicose was the retort last week of Mexico's new young Provisional President Abelardo L. Rodriguez: "In an unforeseen and absurd manner there has been published the encyclical . . . whose tone does not surprise us because methods filled with falsehood against this country are characteristic of the Papacy. . . . "In answer to the open incitation made to the clergy to provoke agitation, I declare that at the slightest manifestation of disorder the Government will proceed with full energy to resolve definitely this...
...student body is to foster interest in politics among the undergraduates. This is in accordance with a country-wide league of Republican Clubs in the various colleges who hope that the increase of interest in politics will lead college graduates to enter this field and so elevate its moral tone. The Harvard Republican Club is planning several meetings during late October and early November at which speakers of state and national prominence will address the college...
...Beebe, shouting: "It varies from pale blue to pale green. But all on the very pale side. No deep tone. It must be the normal luminescence of the creatures...
When he played in Berlin three years ago Yehudi Menuhin was 12, the same age as last week's performer, Violinist Ruggiero Ricci. But although his fingers were nimble, his bowing free, his tone surprisingly smooth, the little Italian boy did not cause Chancellor von Papen to arise and cheer or Albert Einstein to rush backstage. Ricci's playing used to have an emotional quality which made few critics hesitate to class him with Menuhin. Lawsuits followed in which his parents claimed that his guardian, Beth Lackey, was exploiting the boy. The courts returned him to the parents...
...knows, most jade is green. Yet jade when pure is white. It is made green by an admixture of other minerals, usually chromium. And it may in fact be any one of three very hard minerals: nephrite, jadeite and chloromelanite. Properly cut jade will give out a clear musical tone when struck...