Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laboratory in the building a transmitter will be set up as an experiment, which will give tone signals for ten minutes every hour. Ordinarily this apparatus is used for short distances only, but it is hoped that the sound may be deflected by certain strata in the high atmosphere and thus by following a series of taugents to the globe, reach the south polar region. If the expedition succeeds in picking up these signals it is possible that direct communication by voice may be established for a short period each day. For the present, aerial broadcasts will be sent...
...listened to the greatest of Beethoven pianists. Schnabel had played the difficult Fourth Concerto easily, quietly, without once tossing his head or flinging his hands ostentatiously into the air. For his audience he made Beethoven all-sufficient-with the clarity of his phrasing, the prismatic shading of his tone color, the way in the second, slow movement he carried on a dialog with the orchestra, pleading tenderly with the strings which had set themselves sternly in unison against...
...general tone of your correspondence from Japan is hatefully cynical-and the effect is to make the Japanese seem to be a jumpy, excited, silly people, instead of being the sane, fine, courteous, peace-loving people they really...
...robbers' lair. Like Robin Hood's merry men they never ground down the faces of the poor but pillaged the rich and warred against unjust rulers. Readers will find this chronicle of their deeds and stratagems amazingly fresh, and once their ears are accustomed to the Chinese tone, reassuringly universal. There are surprisingly few Oriental locutions or ceremonial incantations; the narrative is written even more simply than the famed Tale of Genji (TIME, July 3). Shui Hu Chuan's Chinese manners are polite: each of its 70 chapters begins, "It is said:" ends in some such manner...
...true labor leader: "The name is Lewis-John L." When the titters had died away Lewis, John L. began to read in a surprisingly soft, resonant voice one of the best labor speeches ever made before NRA-a speech perfect in grammar, literate in expression, temperate in tone, earnest in thought. Only his closest friends knew that his wife, a onetime Iowa school teacher, had spent years straining coarseness and vulgarity from his diction, prodding him to soak his mind in good literature. Though he does not strut his learning...