Word: twitter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Science has succeeded in photographing tones. Now that it is known to possess weight, the physicist will find no rest until he has tabulated the specific gravity of all the sounds from a milligram bird's twitter to a hundred-ton football cheer. Modern ingenuity has learned to "can" music. Certain modern composers have succeeded in extracting the melody from it, and producing compositions of pure noise. Music may be bought by the sheet, the roll, or the disk. Perhaps the time is not far distant when it will be priced like cabbages, at so much a pound...
Secretary of State Hughes: "When someone mentioned 'vacation' to me I said: ' I have not thought of summer, nor even of spring. I have not heard the twitter of a bird...