Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight or nine times as much. So for the last five and a half years Zenith's engineers have worked at the new hearing device and a way to mass-produce it. Besides the economy of mass production, costs are cut by 1) providing the device with a tone regulator so that the wearer can adjust his own aid, eliminating professional "fittings," 2) providing rubber earpieces of various sizes so that the aid will fit any ear, 3) having customers send the aid directly to the factory for servicing, 4) lengthening battery life (batteries benefit from the regulator feature...
...manpower. Czar Jimmy hugged the report to his well-tailored weskit, declined to reveal its contents. Last week, chivied by suspicious Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Czar Jimmy reluctantly released the report. The reason for his reluctance became plain. Though many of the details had leaked out, the sharp, critical tone had not come through...
...discussion of his Dutch-English ancestry and why he is nonetheless American was more charming than illuminating. Ellsworth Huntington, Yale professor of geography, discussed What Geography Does To America with too much educational zeal and a faint flavor of patronage. Paul Gallico relieved this solemn though unponderous tone with a lightweight piece designed to prove that Americans love baseball because it is their one escape from female domination...
...world police that is a combination of the two, with an international force, supplemented by national armies and navies, as reserves. This is the kind of plan which is today setting the conversational tone of most talk about policing the world...
Said the 61 -year-old retired Air Chief Marshal, who helped direct the magnificent R.A.F. defense during the Battle of Britain: "I have the largest number of messages from men who have passed over in this war. The fact that I want to stress is that the tone of these messages is 'We are O.K.' and 'Don't grieve for us. We're the lucky ones. We've never been so happy. . . .' There is a great organization of Air Force men on the other side and I receive frequent messages from them." Modern...