Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bell Telephone demonstrators took pains to make it clear that Voder does not reproduce speech, like a telephone receiver or loudspeaker. It originates speech at the touch of an operator, synthesizing sounds to form words. The men who built it were able to do so because in their telephone researches they had made a close study of how speech sounds are made by the human larynx, mouth, breath, tongue, teeth and lips. With electrical filters, attenuators, frequency changers, etc. they found that they could produce 23 basic sounds; that intelligible speech could be synthesized from various combinations of these sounds...
Famed Astrophysicist Sir James Jeans sounded off on pianists' "touch": "So far as single notes are concerned it does not matter how [a pianist] strikes the key, so long as he strikes it with the requisite degree of force. . . . The tone quality will be the same whether he strikes it with his fingers or even the end of his umbrella...
...stimulating article written by Richard Aldrich '85 for the Dictionary of American Biography. The following statement comes from Aldrich's closing paragraph: "The best of Paine's works show a fertility, a genuine warmth and spontaneity of invention, and a fine harmonic feeling as well as a sure touch in the organization of form and skill in instrumentation...
...office; 5) considered recognition of the Soviet Union; 6) put into effect a nationwide reduction in bread prices; 7) raised hours of employment of Federal workers to eight a day; 8) ruled that Cabinet Ministers must spend three hours each day receiving the public in order "to keep in touch with the masses"; 9) gave tacit approval to the appointment of a Communist as Mayor of Valparaiso, a Socialist as Mayor of Vina...
...late Cyrus H. K. Curtis had a golden touch with magazines (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman), but his newspaper ventures turned to lead. He bought and killed off three famed Philadelphia newspapers to keep his morning and evening Public Ledger alive, also acquired the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Inquirer. Before he died in 1933 he turned over management of them to his stepson-in-law, John Charles Martin, who got his business start selling coat hangers to villagers along the Ohio River...