Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus Administrator Wickard, much in the same tone as Leon Henderson (see col 3.), said in effect that meat prices must drop considerably below this week's level. This was a further clue that the Administration is leading up to a new anti-inflation program that will provide subsidies, lower farm price ceilings and some kind of wage adjustment. On one front peace had been made, but Wickard threw down the gauntlet for another feud with the farm bloc...
...abrupt wording of the note spoke volumes. From the tone of the Russian press there was more than a hint at disappointment that no pledge of an immediate second front was made...
...trumpet, but that hardly precludes comparison with James. Bill may not rake in the shekels, but he plays good music far more consistently. Those who have been attracted to the Ken by Pee Wee Russell's fame and clarineting have invariably stayed to hear Davison. On the basis of tone alone, or ideas alone, he is undoubtedly a top-ranking musician. James may play more obviously difficult pieces, but Davison occasionally gets off some amazingly technical stuff himself, and this always in good taste...
Gradually the amateurish ensemble acquires split-second precision, an incandescent tone, emotional depth. The students, conscious of the miracle happening to them, talk of "Koussie" in awe. Said one: "We're like a Rockne-coached football team. Other teams have coaches who have adopted the Rockne system, but we have Rockne himself...
...wood winds sound ragged, he stops the players, explains to the culprit that he has been playing piano instead of mezzo forte, achieves on the next try a precise, organlike tone. If the first violins are a hair short of unity, he singles out the lagging fiddler, points out that an improperly held bow is causing his late entrances, illustrates by drawing his baton across his left...