Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was intended no insult to the guests of Harvard College. We are sure that our activities could be construed as conveying insult only by such intolerable inferences and misguided perversions of fact as you have seen fit to print. One obtains the impression from your editorial tone that liberalism is synonymous with passive indifference to the menaces of war which are being brought home to every liberal minded student in every national development. We need only point to Fascist Germany, Imperialist Japan, and the armament competitions in the face of disarmament conferences. To us Armistice Day is significant time...
...University and others who knew him outside his academic activities. As the list of contributors is not yet complete no names will be released until later. In addition to these comments it is expected that quotations from the president's own works will be printed and a half-tone photograph of him will make the frontispiece...
Sierra; Arthur J. Beckhard, producer). A volcanic opera diva returns to Andalusia from Madrid at the request of her abandoned husband, who wants to tone up their daughter's wedding by the appearance of both the bride's parents. The diva arrives with a lot of theatrical riffraff, the daughter cools to her fiance, but the parents are happily reunited as the curtain falls. The diva is impersonated by Blanche Yurka, a seasoned actress who has of late years specialized in Ibsen. Greek tragedy and was one of the Narrators in Lucrece. The playwright is the author...
...sound whose decay Dr. Knudsen studies is a pure tone produced electrically and fed through a loudspeaker into a reverberation chamber filled with gas. Some of the sound is absorbed by the walls instead of by the gas, but this is calculated and discounted. The sound is picked up by a microphone, amplified, converted into electric current which causes a bulb to glow. If the sound has decayed beyond a certain level the current produced is insufficient to light the bulb. The time is measured between the cessation of tone production and the point in decay at which there...
...look of annoyance and the words, "Come on, I don't mean where are you right at this moment but where is your room? Don't be funny," or by a blank and amazed stare and "I didn't know there were rooms here," spoken in such a tone that it is not difficult to see what the speaker is imagining, either some bleak little hole-in-the-wall tucked away behind the kitchens or a dim alcove in a dingy attic...