Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mighty Notre Dame trail Northwestern into the last period, 7-6. This, too, looked for a time like the upset of the year. Then by sheer power, the Irish hacked and hammered at Northwestern's sturdy line, and finally managed to walk off field with their 20th straight victory since Nov. 9, 1946. The game ended with Notre Dame ahead, 12-7; it was Northwestern's last game with Notre Dame-at least for a while...
This Thanksgiving, in tribute to a grand old institution, 20th Century Fox had handed movie audiences the biggest turkey of the season. "When My Baby Smiles At Me" is one of those unfortunate picture that sets out to give you an entertaining evening, but somehow winds up midway between boredom and gastritis...
...20th Century needed a poet (at least) to explain it to itself, and a good place for a 20th Century poet to be born was St. Louis, Mo. Early, Thomas Stearns Eliot left this American heartland to strengthen at Harvard his ancestral New England roots. His output there was conventional verse, but his intake was metaphysics, logic, science and heavy drafts of European and Oriental culture...
...Eliot, with pity as well as derision, exposed its vulgarity, its self-doubt, its confusion and frustration, the 20th Century had no difficulty in recognizing itself. Eliot became one of the strongest influences on two generations of writers-his own contemporaries, and their immediate successors...
...operate RKO theaters. Both would be owned by the present stockholders (Hughes, with 24% of the outstanding common, is the biggest). Since that seemed like just another name for the same thing, the other members of the Big Five-Paramount, Loew's Inc. (M-G-M), Warner Bros., 20th Century-Fox - watched hopefully to see whether Hughes could placate the trustbusters that easily...