Word: toning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like to save my copies of TIME, not only for its news columns, but also for the portraits on the cover. Don't you think it. would be more in harmony with the general tone of the whole magazine if only the really "famed" were pictured on the cover? Give us Kings, Presidents, Premiers, other Statesmen, Scientists and such like. Leave others of relatively less importance or fame for the inner pages. E. KREUTZWEISER...
With the rich tones of a flute fashioned of fine gold, with motion pictures of rippling lines "recording sound waves, Professor Dayton Clarence Miller of the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, illustrated last week "The Basis of Tone Quality in Instrumental Music...
...absorbed Manhattan audience of 600 musicians, engineers, makers of musical instruments, this famed sound scientist, and opponent of the Einstein theory showed how the increased density of metal improves the tone of the instrument, talked on the development of perfect tone. From the lecture room his listeners followed him to the temporary rooms of the Museums of the Peaceful Arts. There they saw his collection of 711 Chinese flutes of jades and ivory flutes carved from human bones, of glass, of an eagle's wing, a ram's horn...
...opera, not that it mattered, was Richard Strauss's Rosenkavalier, heralding a season of decidedly Germanic tone, including two complete revolutions of the Wagner Ring...
...representing a particular period of poetry, such as Elizabethan, Romantic, and so forth. After, the poetry of the Victorian era he places several selections to which he assigns the term "Eighteen-Eighties and Nineties", and which serve as a sort of prelude to the work of a more modern tone. Since these divisions are presumably purely chronological there should be no objection, but nevertheless there will be readers who will question the propriety of omitting Hardy and Housman from poets of the Twentieth Century, since the work of the former at least is quite as modern as that of others...