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Republican ex-Governor Robert Bass spotted Bridges as a likely young man, appointed him as his secretary, urged him to run for Governor in 1934. Bridges ran, and despite a national Democratic sweep that year, he won-becoming, at 36, the youngest Governor in New Hampshire's history. Bridges instituted unemployment compensation and insurance, old age benefits, even while balancing the budget. By 1936, Governor Bridges was a leading candidate for the vice-presidential nomination. But Alf Landon won the top spot on the ticket, and even before the Republican Convention, gleeful Democrats had come up with a deadly...
...like designing an airplane by copying a bird's feathers. His machine does not depend on sound frequencies; it recognizes words by listening for their "asymmetry," an esoteric quality of speech that human ears cannot distinguish but that Shoebox finds as clear as the beat of a bass drum...
...Sultan of Turkey, played by Ezio Flagello, while hardly lecherous enough, flaunted his despotism and fat sufficently to be piquant. Ezio Flagello looks like a mean old sultan, and sings a professional bass...
Lackluster tone and a consistent tendency to flat notes plagued the Princetonians in every one of their pieces, from the Hassler Cantate Doming to Black-eyed Susie. Their bass section was so weak as to be superfluous, and even the "Hey" in one of their football songs was fairly pallid. The first half of their selections slogged along rather dully during a medley of Three German Romantic Choruses by Schubert, Schumann, and Weber, respectively. The horn accompaniment, though an improvement over many a brass ensemble, still cast a submarine gloom over three already drab and awkward numbers...
Harmonic distortion is the doubling of frequency by an amplifier or other component which cannot handle low bass. It does not irritate the ear so much as it bothers one's musical sense. When instruments start taking on new characteristics, harmonic distortion is at work...