Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audiophile was listening, fascinated, to a highly polished but weak-spirited phonograph. The tune was the familiar Pagan Love Song, but the words sounded strange: "Native cows are calling/Do the wings go on . . ." Since the listener knew that the lyric actually reads: "Native hills are calling/To them we belong," he was easily able to diagnose the troubles in the phonograph: limited frequency response; harmonic, intermodulation and transient distortion, peaking, and possibly flutter; nonlinearity and needle talk. The audiophile's only prescription for a cure: get a high-fidelity...
Sophomore Heckscher, Crimson number one man, is expected to defeat his Trinity opponent, Wade Close in a tune-up for the National Intercollegiate Championships, Saturday, Feb. 19, in Detroit...
...start mining. At least 20 of the nation's biggest mining companies, e.g.. Phelps Dodge, Anaconda Copper, Climax Molybdenum and Vanadium Corp. of America, were looking over companies with promising claims. Thus out-of-town investors, who hooted at uranium stocks nine months ago, have changed their tune. Now three of every four orders come from outside the city...
...Pair of Blue Eyes (Shirley Harmer; M-G-M). With a voice warm and sweet enough to make any passable tune sound good. Songstress Harmer turns this little mood piece (from the film Song 0' My Heart) into a real holiday...
...McCarthy, pointedly omitted from the guest lists of two White House dinners last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), happily dawdled with a new toy: a fancy electric organ which his handsome wife Jean gave him for Christmas. After a few lessons, he had already learned how to pick out one tune. The song: Old Black...