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Word: toning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston Pops Concerts, which, under Mr. Fiedler's lively baton, carries on nightly with overtures, semi-classical favorites, and light tone-poems. The audience listens lightly and lolls around tables guzzling beers. Tonight Mr. Fiedler's gentleman present their standard gourmand's fare. Music like Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," interesting harmonically but otherwise dull, the Brahms Fifth Hungarian Dance, and the unbreakable Blue Danube Waltz, are there for those who can still bear them. Of greater relish is the delightful fantasy "Fugue and Variations on Under the Spreading Chestnut-Tree" by Weinberger, one of the sensations of the past...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: The Music Box | 5/21/1940 | See Source »

Despite the undercurrent of seriousness and concern occasioned by the war crisis in Europe, the forty-third annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs got under way with a generally festive spirit, and the hilarious manual of Dr. Ralph S. Foss '03 set the tone for the gathering from the start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horseplay Reigns As Foss Aids Alumni Who Flock To Harvard Club of New York Party | 5/18/1940 | See Source »

...journeyed into the language of every civilized people on the globe, and been grasped at by music lovers as a reason for liking Sibelius. Yet if one would arrive at a comprehensive appreciation of his music, it is impossible to take the remark seriously. True, in the symphonies and tone-poems, there are passages of a woodwind complexion, of a curious rough-hewn quality, which have been traditionally seized on as the hall-mark of Sibelius's idiom. But the great moments in his great works are not this "incarnation of the fjords of Finland." The great works breathe...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: The Music Box | 5/14/1940 | See Source »

...Coffee is vacuum-packed by some canners because the oxygen in the air diminishes freshness and flavor. It occurred to Engineer Jay Erwin Tone of Des Moines that freshness and flavor might be even better preserved if, after air was pumped from the can, it was replaced by vapor from fresh-ground coffee. After several years of puttering, he invented a big machine which fills 3,000 coffee cans an hour with such vapor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Technology Notes | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...streamlined bit of old-world charm, the monastery is furnished with the ultra-modern frugality which is considered chic in profaner abodes. White stucco-walls of a peculiarly warm tone, a few austere paintings (not all religious), and plain dark furniture (not all antique) are as suitable to monkish taste as to "The Home Beautiful." The brothers' wholesome fare is supplied from a flashy kitchen with air exhaust, at a cost of 141/2 cents per meal (attention Harvard Dining Halls). Their cells are considerably smaller, but lighter and cleaner than those across Boylston Street. Enterprising fathers can climb...

Author: By F. H. B., | Title: Circling the Square | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

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