Word: toned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soft strings and woodwind, was lost in an open space. This idea is changing. The cause of the change is to be found in the improvement in sounding boards. An orchestra playing in front of and partly under a great, cavern-like sound deflector contrives to project its tone to the audience quite acceptably...
...Stadium have been a summer feature for several years. They are announced in increasing elaboration for the coming warm months. The Stadium concerts have demonstrated the merits of the improved sounding boards. In the front seats, perhaps in the front half of the audience, the volume orchestral tone comes in about the same ringing fullness that you get in a concert hall. In the first several rows you do not get the deafening ill-balance that you get in a similar position in an auditorium. The distant rumbling of street cars and elevated trains and the honking of automobile horns...
...this can be taken as an indication that Turkey is at last of a mind to gentle the high tone which she has hitherto assumed, the present Lausanne Conference may be able to complete its business satisfactorily within two or three weeks. It is possible that she has discovered that continual swinging of her war club does not bring foreign money for the development of her resources. Turks are notoriously poor farmers, manufacturers and tradesmen. They much prefer to have others perform such drab necessities of life and in view of this, their policy of refusing guarantees to foreign investors...
Twenty years of such searching for just the right tone, scrupulous attention to detail which discovered the slightest inappropriate gesture, have made the Moscow Art Players the most finished group of actors on the modern stage. But they are more than highly polished puppets; they are artists chosen for their ability "to synchronize their own feelings with those of the role." They are asked to portray only those characters whose experiences in some way resemble their own. Indeed, the nearest English equivalent to the Russian wording for acting is the phrase "deep feelings...
...will not charge a commission or bonus in money or stock for making loans, nor operate an affiliated security company nor make loans either to its officers or to companies with which they are officially connected. Exactly what purpose Mr. Durant has in mind is not clear; ,the tone of his manifesto, however, makes it apparent that he has not forgotten the liquidation of his affairs by bankers in 1920, which was the occasion of his withdrawal from General Motors...