Word: tunings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first performance of "The Rivals" was a state occasion, and dedicatory speeches and a host of acknowledgements were not only in order, but an indispensable sine qua non to mark the event. But to present the second offering in their repertoire, sans the delay of congratulatory speeches, to the tune of a performance well over three and a half hours long is as imprudent as it is inexcusable...
...light into music, sound into color. His instrument, called the "luminaphone," releases light from a series of searchlights to strike through a pattern of holes on revolving disks. Each hole is the equivalent of a note of music. The light, interrupted so as to form the pattern of a tune, passes through the holes to strike selenium plates, setting up vibrations which are "amplified" as on a radio. When Inventor Grindell-Matthews placed his hand over one of the lights, a note was deadened; when all the lights were covered, all sounds ceased. The instrument has a tone like that...
...points secured during this thirty-game rivalry. Against 97 for Dartmouth the University amassed 634, a total the size of which can only be explained by the immense scores that were made possible by the earlier system of rules. In 1886, the Crimson blanked the Green to the tune of 70 points, while in the next encounter of the two teams, the Crimson set the high mark of 74 points...
...Holy Cross band did a fine and courteous thing in playing a Harvard tune first, and then when the Harvard band played and the general expectation was that they would be equally courteous, they not merely failed to play a Holy Cross tune, but played and Harvard sand--a Harvard-Yale football song...
...concrete case of disease, our attention is shifting and laying the emphasis on the prevention rather than the cure of social evils. Our work and in general the theory of social service is readjustment of the individual to an environment with which he is out of tune...