Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most political writers, though differing on so many points, generally agree that the chief trouble with modern government is that the higher type of individual does not associate himself with it. That college men with their background and training, could do much to raise the tone of politics by entrance into a field which has degenerated is unquestioned. Princeton men could do worse than to develop "a sense of state." --The Daily Princetonian...
...exasperating question of Sydney Smith more than a century ago is well remembered; and he was not the first, as certainly he was not the last, to deride us. James Bryce handed down an indictment or two and Siegfried and others have expanded his question into volumes. The tone has become more bitter since the United States became the creditor of Europe. The critics make few allowances for the youth of the nation. They compare our developing civilization with the crystallized customs of countries which were mellowed when Americans were felling the forests and striving for mastery over nature. American...
...molds just as a sculptor molds in soft clay the forms appearing under his fingers. . . . His originality of conception comes from his expressing the essence and soul of the score instead of merely the literal notes. ... It is the divine fire in him which elevates all he expresses through tone, so that one knows that at that moment music is being created which through its vitality, rich color, plastic form, pulsating rhythm brings us a vision of the beauty and power of which this life is capable, when that vision is brought to us by such a master...
...speakers attempted to select groups of stocks which will rise most during the next two years. Most prominent was the food & dairy industry, mentioned four times. Practically every other industry was favored by at least one speaker. But no speaker was very enthusiastic over even his own selections. The tone of the meeting was definitely bearish...
Clothier .Tone? & Co., Philadelphia...