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