Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Chairman Wickersham might have observed that the tone of headlines largely reflects the particular tenets of the journal which it adorns. Across the top of an account of his speech carried in the dripping-Wet New York Herald Tribune was blazoned...
...prompted this action is examined. The object of the CRIMSON'S prohibition poll was to crystalize student opinion on prohibition. That it did. It may be that some of the votes were cast in devil-may-care attitude but when 24,000 college students speak out there is a tone of seriousness accompanying the facts. The paper from Wisconsin states that if the number of drinkers and non-drinkers could be ascertained, a basis for an intelligent observation would be laid. However, a poll asking "Do you drink" could not do this, according to this belligerent sheet. The indirect methods...
Definitely the whole tone of the Soviet crusade to extinguish religion became less hysterical as the week advanced. Addressing a Moscow mass meeting of The Militant Atheists, Chairman Emelyan Yaroslavsky said that the Government deplored efforts to progress too rapidly with spectacular wholesale destruction of churches and the burning of ikons by the carload in public squares. He advised less attention to such externals, more concentration on lectures and house-to-house work among those from whose minds and hearts the Communist missionary seeks to remove belief...
...dear Lord Rothschild," begins the Balfour Declaration, and the remainder of this personal note written by Mr. Arthur Balfour as Foreign Secretary on Nov. 2, 1917 is in the elegant and casual tone he took on all occasions, private, public and forensic. "My dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations, which has been submitted to and approved by the Cabinet...
...distinctly wet tone of the National Collegiate Prohibition Poll establishes the first actual evidence of undergraduate sentiment on the Eighteenth Amendment. While the Poll is in no sense complete, it definitely replaces popular legend with statistics, at the same time presenting one entirely new aspect to the whole discussion of legal restrictions to drinking...