Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against this background the President last week addressed the world. In a light grey seersucker suit, a mourning-armband for his mother on his sleeve, the President spoke in a low, grave tone, without histrionics, with little dramatic emphasis. But his words were hammer blows...
President Roosevelt thought so too. He was taking no nonsense from Japan. His instructions to the Cabinet departments grew sharper in tone. Result: the Japanese were impressed for the first time with the seriousness of the U.S. about-face from Far East appeasement...
...took no survey to discover that Latin Americans are sick to death of propaganda, wherever it comes from. Last week for the Argentine Foreign Office both the British and German Ambassadors crossed their hearts on paper to tone their propaganda down. Intoned Britain's Sir Esmond Ovey: "His Majesty's Government desire nothing other than to cooperate with the [Argentine] Government in whatever action tends to suppress factors of public intranquillity...
...teaches geology at Hartford's Trinity College, last week proudly exhibited the latest results of a lifetime spent thinking about rocks: a xylophone made of stone. The idea came to him on a trip through Virginia's Shenandoah Caverns when his guide produced a beautiful, clanking tone by striking a stalactite across the middle...
...record changer has a double tone arm, shaped like a big tuning fork, whose prongs, each equipped with a needle and pickup, swing out over both sides of the record at once. Records are dropped from the stack on to a miniature turntable which leaves the grooved surface of both sides exposed. The upper side of the record is played by the upper prong. Then the record automatically begins to turn backward, and the lower prong plays the lower side. Then the record slips down a chute, and No. 2 drops into place...