Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilian, Justice Owen J. Roberts of the Supreme Court of the United States, headed the commission and gave its report a judicial tone. The rest of the commission was well equipped to supply professional understanding: Brigadier General Joseph T. McNarney, Major General Frank R. McCoy (retired); retired Admirals Joseph M. Reeves, himself a onetime CINCUS, and William H. Standley, onetime Chief of Naval Operations...
...Hill's first hearing, last October, Attorney John J. O'Connor appeared with him, said in the injured tone of a martyr: "I am here to plead Congressman Fish not guilty." Said Congressman Fish himself: "George Hill is 100% O.K., and I'll back George Hill to the limit on anything...
...chief place of honor is undoubtedly Tyndale's. It was he who gave to our Biblical speech its organic features, shaping it out of the language of his time. . . . To Tyndale we owe the tone of simple earnestness, the plainness of speech, and the economy of words, that characterize so much of our Bible...
Listeners in Central Square and even in Fen way in Boston reported that they had heard the alarm system. Company officials also were pleased by the way in which the unusual tone of the siren was noticed; for one of their big problems, besides devising a frequency that would be heard above the sounds of traffic, was to make the tone different from any other siren or fog horn...
Seventeen colleges throughout the nation have been invited to the social service meeting, and a majority of them have already accepted. A new tone will pervade the conference in contrast to the conclave which last year organized the Intercollegiate Committee on Community Service. Emphasis will be laid on student defense service in wartime and that is expected to be the subject of Saltonstall's address...