Word: toned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Telegravure is far simpler than telephotography. Telephotography requires costly apparatus to transform pictures into electric impulses, then back to pictures. The transmitted photograph must be engraved. The Ford process starts with a special photographic plate which "screens" the original picture with a mesh of fine crossed lines. The varying tones of black, grey and white-there are about 26 tones in the standard half-tone print-are thus laid out in a pattern like a cross-stitch sampler. To each tone a letter is assigned-D for deep black, A for very light grey, etc. On the telegravure typewriters...
...Ives' father, Frederick E. Ives, was himself a scientist of note; invented the half-tone process for printing (TIME...
...Symphony Hall, in Boston, tonight, to hear another program, presented by Serge Koussevitzky and his Boston Symphony Orchestra. Here he may hear two scores by American composers. Chadwick's Ballad. "Tam o'Shanter", and Sessions Symphony in E minor. The closing part of the program will comprise Strauss tone poem, "Death and Transfiguration", and the Dance of Salome from the opera, "Salome...
...make fun of children's stories, but this doesn't seen; to rub the bloom off. We like them all the more for their artlessness, their quaint little ways. And how harmoniously the editors worked together to create their Wonder-Book and to maintain throughout their tone of genial fantasy...
...most human, finds herself in a position which might have been transferred wholly from some cheap melodrama, but she conducts herself as regards her dilemma with the primitiveness of a Sherwood Anderson creation, not only challenging the world but challenging it with a barbaric splendor. Likewise with the tone of the entire book; its actual period is the nineties of the last century but its spirt and menner are those of the most militant modernists. If Miss Sinclair could have subdued her intensely feminine treatment in the interests of a better rounded and more sympathetic whole she would have...