Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was something in President Roosevelt's tone of voice when he talked on Thursday night about the national problem of the Supreme Court at the Party dinner that frankly got under our skin. For not only was every rank and shade of economic royalist run through the hoops of the circus--master's magnificent invective, but the nine old guinca pigs were asked to perform a lot of experiments that even nine humans couldn't in reason be asked to go through, much less a body of lawyers...
...opponents to slip into platitudes about last night's Victory speech. The occasion begged him to pat the party and himself on the back, and the revived memory of November could hardly have failed to infect him with extra self-confidence. This is the best excuse for the messianic tone of his remarks whose very perfection of delivery aroused enthusiasm and revulsion. No one quarrels with his key argument--that democracy must do more for the underprivileged--but the details of the redeal give pause to many...
...last few years, magazines have been full of articles about the New Seriousness in the American college. The predominant tone among undergraduates now, you read, is marked by thoughtful interest in contemporary social and economic problems. Intriguing possibility...
...large campuses have little groups of earnest and not badly informed serious thinkers bewildering themselves about the modern world, but their influence on the tone of the campus is as narrow as that of the local Phi Beta Kappa. . . . There is hardly a trace of it in the Mississippi Valley...
...revised Hopkins radiovoting method explained last week, both these difficulties are met. When the studio wants to learn how many sets are tuned in, it broadcasts a musical tone of a definite pitch. In the Hopkins attachment on the receiving sets a reed adjusted to this pitch is set vibrating. That action trips a relay circuit, starts a small induction motor which gradually adds an inducted load to the general power load. Overloading is thus eliminated and the voting current is recorded on a special meter. This automatic operation calls for no action on the part of the listeners...