Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ounce of good nervous tone in an examination is worth many pounds of anxious study for it in advance. If you want really to do your best in an examination, fling away the book the day before, say to yourself, 'I won't waste another minute on this miserable thing, and I don't care an iota whether I succeed or not." Say this sincerely, and feel it; and go out and play, or go to bed and sleep, and I am sure the results next day will encourage you to use the method permanently...
...industry into hopeless confusion. Columbia, ballyhooing an entire symphony on one record at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, was given a sudden slap in the face by RCA, which claims its speed of 45 r.p.m. is the best for "completely distortion-free music of unprecedented brilliance and clarity of tone...
...symphony on one record, reduced the size of the record to seven inches, and come up with the startling result that its new record holds exactly the same amount of music as an old 12 incher. This leaves the entire advantage of the record in its improved tone and the rapid changer. Columbia's no-changer record has the definite advantage here. In fact, the difference to the consumer between RCA's new record and old is so slight that it is hard to see how the now one will compete with Columbia's already established...
Consumer attitude has been one of complete bafflement. Is RCA's tone better or does the company merely want--to make up for the loss in time to Columbia by confusing buyers? For the present, record listeners can sit back and watch the big boys fight...
...separated cultures. The woman in the Greek wedding procession, bowling along in her chariot, might almost be on the way back from buying a work dress in a country store; and in a letter quoted from a lady of Chaucer's day to her husband, the cooing tone of the gentle gold digger sounds clearly through the medieval prose: "I would you were at home, liever than a gown, though it were of scarlet...