Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is another recipe," the Reichsbanker told the savings bankers with scorn in his tone. "It is to print bank notes, as many as are needed. Swift price increases would be the result, with wage rises lagging behind. Such 'compulsory saving' we have had before and called it inflation...
Then Dick Harlow voiced a few of his opinions on wasting time in general, on pall-bearers and their place on the grid-iron in particular. He spoke in a modulated tone and his language was not strong, just very clear. Then the scrimmage recommenced and rapidly took on the aspect of a track meet. At its close, Harlow pronounced it a highly satisfactory workout. Nor are many more practices likely to begin sluggishly in the near future...
...There has been some difficulty with phons in international exchanges of research results because in the U. S. the decibel was generally used as a loudness unit as well as an intensity unit and in England and Germany different zero levels, different frequencies for the reference tone and different listening techniques were in use. At a recent international conference in Paris these differences were ironed out and a standard phon scale agreed on involving a uniform listening technique, reference tone, and zero level. Some loudnesses measured on this scale are: ticking of watch at 3 ft., 30 phons; tearing...
...slow, graft-ridden, stupidly conceived. While the famine lasted. 21,770 people died of starvation, the total Irish mortality for the five years that ended in 1851 was close upon a million. The two most important results were: a desperate stiffening of the rebelliousness already inflamed by Wolfe Tone. Emmet, O'Connell; a tide of emigration, chiefly to the U. S., that in the next 50 years cut Ireland's population of 8,000,000 in half...
...various undergraduate extra-curricular activities explained the nature of their work must have been struck by the extraordinary good humor with which proceedings were punctuated. Not only was the serious side of undergraduate life outlined, but the spirit of affability and good fellowship and cheer was shown by the tone of the meeting. The stories which enlivened the gathering appeared as a particularly pleasant form of good clean fun. Accordingly the letter which appeared in these columns on Tuesday morning decrying the "mild profanity" and "slightly off-color stories" seemed rather funny...