Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nightmare of elementary language courses, cannot be counted on, as at present organized, to fill matriculation gaps, let alone furnish an introduction, for the better prepared students, to work of university grade. And concentration, for example in a science, plus four courses in economics, or vice versa, may add a dubious passport indeed to the fellowship of educated men. Although the study made by Mr. Flexner of American universities showed a lamentable majority which thought that everything was as important as everything else, it will hardly be here denied that every subject permitted for concentration is not of equal value...
...wish to add immediately and in the most explicit and solemn manner that we will send out all the soldiers we believe necessary. And no one can take upon himself the intolerable presumption to dictate to us concerning the character and volume of our precautionary measures...
...equally great achievement to have added valuable information in at least 22 separate branches of science." Then the President of the United States took off his hat and said: "Admiral, I salute you." Then Franklin Roosevelt grasped the Admiral's hand and said: "And let me add just one thing from the heart: Dick, I salute you!" Said Rear Admiral Byrd: "Mr. President, I am very glad that you have mentioned our old friendship, because if you had not, good taste would have prevented my doing so. . . . There certainly would be something wrong with...
...Modesty has always been supposed to add zest to a wooer's conquest . . . but the Sultan was too mighty to fight for his prize. . . . The slave maiden was allowed a scanty choice of fascinating devices. However beautiful she might be, the three silent obeisances that she made as she entered the bridal chamber could not bewitch the master's senses by their eloquence- for the most part he did not notice them, for he was already...
...Into Your Dance (Warner) is a good-humored backstage musicomedy of which the two most noticeable ingredients are Ruby Keeler's legs and Al Jolson's mother complex. Since neither constitutes a novelty to U. S. cinema audiences, Go Into Your Dance is not likely to add to Warner Brothers' stature as the boldest experimenters in Hollywood. But. since both are legitimate embellishments for a story about an overconfident song-&-dance man regenerated by the good influence of a partner who keeps him sober and rescues him from the clutch of a gangster's wife (Helen...