Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lineup of the first football game, occurring in 1882, showed the Glee Club's basses in the center and the tenors on the outside, whereas the strings and winds spread themselves evenly over the field. Pierian kicked off to the tune of the Marseillaise and the Glee Club received, singing Yankee Doodle. Yankee Doodle was too much for the Muses' followers--the singers...
...tune of I Know That You Know, a 45-voice chorus roared out the "Buy" song 1,000 times over radio and TV in recession-racked Detroit (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) in the past fortnight. Following through, the city's radio stations contributed 10,000 ten-second spots, exhorted Detroiters to "Buy now!" Newspapers ran banners on advertising pages: KEEP DETROIT DYNAMIC-BUY NOW. Everyone pitched in for a civic crusade to buy Detroit-and the auto industry-out of its depression...
Concerning Esma Jackson's "closeup" of Mrs. Eisenhower [March 17]: it might turn out to be unfortunate that Reporter Jackson overheard Mamie mention Ike's favorite tune [When You and I Were Young, Maggie]. Perhaps by the time he leaves office, he will have learned to hate it as F.D.R. did Home on the Range...
...found a scene that made a novel page in war correspondence. Reported the New York Times's Bernard Kalb: U.S. kids were playing tag on a paved street, an American woman dived into a glittering pool, and "a couple of American men, sipping ice cream sodas to the tune of jukebox music, were chatting about what kind of season the Yankees would have...
...room like filing cabinets. They peer out of their redoubts through the eyes of closed-circuit TV cameras spotted around the launch pad (once, a camera zoomed in at the base of a gantry to discover a group of unwary poker players). At Central Control, sports-shirted young engineers tune in on an eleven-hour countdown that precedes a missile firing, timing each monotonous checkoff point with the red-flashing sequencer count-light (on the bulletin board is a sign, OUT TO LAUNCH...