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Word: tone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martin Boykan '51 will present a lecture-recital on 12-tone music at 8 p.m. Wednesday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boykan Will Lecture | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...diary has been published in a book which the publishers call "a classic of World War II." In a way it is. Certainly it contains one of the most frightful stories ever printed. A few of his notes suggest the unvarying tone of the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buried Alive | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...Four hundred men's clothing manufacturers, meeting in Boston, optimistically announced that they would dress U.S. males in gay plumage in 1949. Proposed innovations: nylon socks in rainbow colors, jackets with big patch pockets and matching belts, pastel shirts and two-tone belts with big "bold look" buckles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...which . . . can today be claimed solely by the more popular American film stars." Occasionally, the passion leads to refinements probably not dreamed of in Marshall Plan philosophy. At an orchestra rehearsal, "the composer of the work in progress having informed the orchestra that the next 25 bars of his tone-poem represented the triumph of democracy over Fascism, all the strings got up and cheered and the brass and percussion walked out in a rage." The woodwinds (who in Greece "are almost always Liberal") compromised by sitting quietly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Architect Turned Cartoonist | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...main purpose, however, is to protest against the entire tone of the editorial, which your writer could have corrected by asking a few questions at the HAA. Mr. Bingham and his staff are fully aware of the trouble, which has been brewing for some time and poses a knotty problem, and an informal study (including a poll of former Harvard athletes) was begun last year to seek a solution. Mr. Bingham alerted both athletic committees for future action some time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protests Editorial Tone | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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