Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...titles as Solvents, Elements of Physical Chemistry, Colloidal Behavior, The Selenium Cell. Much of his time he spends on the seventh floor of the Mirror Building, behind a door marked "International Research Laboratories, Inc." There, with his staff of technicians, he has produced a machine to make a half-tone engraving in four minutes instead of the customary hour. Instead of the usual acid bath, the Howey machine employs a photoelectric eye which scans the photograph. The impulses from the electric eye actuate a cutting tool which etches the lights & shades of the picture into a revolving half-cylinder...
Author Bynner sets the tone of his Guest Book, but in such poems as Liar and Oats he sums up complex careers and relationships in a few concise lines, drops many a casual, oldfashioned, epigrammatic observation. In Widower he finds lovely symbols and lines to express his favorite theme of loneliness...
...deaf person wants to regulate the fundamental tone of his speaking voice. He can only do this by regulating the "pitch." The new machine, by employing a distorting amplifier and a sound filter, can segregate and record the fundamental pitch even when it is so obscure in the original speech as to be hardly detectable by the usual instruments...
...habit of writing "letters to the editor," but the whole tone of the review of Joseph Auslander's latest book of poems, No Traveller Returns, on p. 80 of your May 27 issue, strikes me as so sneering and uncritical in the best sense, that I feel I must protest. After all, I have been following American poetry for years, and should know just a little of what I am talking about. In the first place, to single out any one poet to whom to apply the title "Poetaster," is letting prejudice override fairness entirely. In the second place...
...build up his sensitivity. Sensitizers: "worry, fear, anger, sorrow, fatigue, diversion of attention, joy, focal infections, and endocrine influences (especially the menopause), trauma, meteorological changes." As an example Dr. Libman cites the case of a Viennese doctor who, when a soprano took a B note a quarter of a tone too high, suffered a severe attack of pain in a tooth that had never before been painful. On the following day that doctor's dentist found the tooth decayed...