Word: absently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Next Corner. A young American wife (Dorothy Mackaill) whose husband (Conway Tearle) is in Argentina finds that castles in Spain are dangerous places for dalliance. The Spaniard (Ricardo Cortez) who entices her to one, is shot as the betrayer of another girl. Thereupon she decides she really loves her absent husband. Flying to Argentina, she is pursued all the way by the dead man's valet (Lon Chaney) who also practises love-making with her. To gain his ends, he waves an incriminating letter over her for reel after reel. She wears herself and the audience out debating whether...
...heavily corrugated tungsten steel were used as filaments. The heat generated reached 3,200 degrees Centigrade, melting the glass. A large electric fan was used to cool the air. The inventor, George Bowerman, is experimenting with a type of quartz glass to withstand the heat. Red rays are absent from the spectrum of the big bulb, which closely resembles that of sunlight. The lamp will be used in moving picture studios and color photography. The minute sister bulb was the one used recently by Dr. Chevalier Jack- son, distinguished Philadelphia surgeon, to illuminate the throat of an 8-months...
According to an official announcement, all students in Harvard College and the Engineering School must attend the first meetings of their courses after the mid-year period. An instructor may refuse admittance to the course to anyone who is absent from the first class. A list of the meeting places of the second half-year courses beginning today is published elsewhere in the CRIMSON...
...there is something strangely absent! There is a content with dreary poetical effects which, I hesitate to say, seem sloppy when coming from a man of such great potentiality. At 14 I worshiped Mr. MacKaye. He was the modern drama to me; and if I cry out against an early hero, it is only because he seems to me to be too consciously striving for an effect, really to allow himself his own greatness...
...acquisition of academic knowledge has not this pecuniary asset--at least, there is no direct connection between a cultural background and better bookkeeping, for example, so far as the popular eye can see. The stimulus, therefore, will probably be absent, and the diffusion of cultural education "to all members of society" may be much slower than expected. Certainly, the more such knowledge can be spread, the better; and if an aristocracy of brains can be succeeded by a democracy with the same level of mental attainment, the millenium will be near...