Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historian and antiquarian the almanac is invaluable. As the practical earmark of a basically practical age, it reflected the life and manners of the colonial period. The almanac was, as it were, the tone of American life until 1800. When the number of colonial printing presses multiplied and the cost of publication dropped as a result, the almanac lost its influence and significance. When it became a relic, it was used ignominiously...
...little Symphony in A Major, which Mozart wrote at the age of 18, and which was introduced by the Boston Symphony last year, will be repeated. The program will conclude with Strauss's tone poem, "Ein Heldenleben...
...points. There is only one way to escape a man-eating shark if a person is thrown into the water beside him. Kick the right and left legs alternately and move the arms in a windmill fashion; the prospective victim should also call for help in a sharp tone. If this does not work, go back for further instructions. The man-eating shark can often be seen following the wake of boats in southern waters in hopes of garbage, and whaling ships used to vary the monotony of long voyages by endeavoring to catch the huge fish. Man-eating sharks...
...each is about 28 1-4 square feet, if you remember your plane geometry. When the calfskin is hit a good wallop, this makes quite a radius of vibration; unfortunately the sides are so close together that most of it is dissipated inside the drum, producing a low tone that doesn't carry very far. But the tone is there nevertheless, and the claim that the real boom is produced by a smaller instrument is absolutely unfounded...
...like stealing of twigs off literature's genealogical tree, his pupa-like spinning, out of a bowel-deep terror of extinction, pessimism's tight and tolerably comfortable cocoon. Irritating to some ears will be Author Tate's attempts, in many of his poems, to catch the tone of T. S. Eliot's latter-day concord of sourness and light. But in the presentation of his central themes, the Civil War and life's mortal idiocy, Poet Tate, verging in his later poems on the first-rate, speaks in his own tones...