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Word: act (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Problems in connection with this phase of the work include: the acoustics of the broadcasting room; the placement of performers in order to avoid rebound and overemphasis; the accurate reproduction of sound effects so that "hoof beats in the distance" don't drown out the heroics of the act; and the blending of all parts of the program in the right proportions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADIO WORKSHOP STAFF MASTERS TECHNIQUE OF PRODUCING BROADCAST | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

...Chamberlain doesn't act as though he had read this book, even though it in a best seller," they claim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS SEND "MEIN XAMPF" TO BRITISH PRIME MINISTER | 5/4/1939 | See Source »

...those parts of the play, however, where the players let down their hair and threw themselves into their parts, they packed a real punch. The third act was superb; the pace was fast; and the build-up of the first two acts gave the final one added force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/4/1939 | See Source »

...gargantuan: Author Padover calls it "glandular." A "normal" meal for him would consist of four cutlets, a fat chicken, six eggs, a slice of ham. Sometimes he gorged himself insensible, would then mutter remorseful words of "slop-pail grossness." At decisive moments he was often too gorged to act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King-Cog | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Fulton, with three would-be pilferers caught in the act, and with two of Harvard's four his to his credit played well. However, with the exception of three brief rallies, the Stahlmen were important...

Author: By Thoodore R. Barnett, | Title: Mikkolamen Whip Crusaders, Huskies; Big Red Beats Nine in Sloppy Contest | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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