Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three months the Ford of France will be able to get on his feet. For that period Michelin agreed to guarantee the debts of Citroën, but on a hard condition. To make sure that the slick motorman plays no tricks, Michelin forced M. Citroën to admit into his plants Michelin technicians and Michelin accountants who will keep tab on every move, every franc, every centime...
...much different atmosphere is the co-feature, "Desirable," a, delightful even if at times unconvincing romance. Jean Muir, newly arrived to stardom, as the naive and ingenuously piquant daughter of a prominent actress too vain to admit having a child so old is charming in her simplicity, George Brent as the old friend of her mother's who elects himself as her guardian and educates her so that she may be "desirable" is as bland and gracious as ever. The role of the actress mother is capably handled by Vera Teasdale. Though at times the acting is overdone...
Things come to a head when Judge Priest, temporarily disbanded, helps defend a stranger on trial for the knifing of one Elisworth Brown, local dude and "jelly-bean" par excellence. The jury seems ready to admit that Master Brown richly deserves his portion, but nevertheless is prone to regard the unsociable defendant, who probably did not fight for the Stars and Bars, with a jaundiced eye. Judge Priest turns the tables in masterful fashion. While the strains of "Dixie" are wafted into the hushed courtroom, the parson, (Henry B. Walthall) comes forward as character witness on behalf of the defendant...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences there is need for correction of a condition that has been a source of annoyance to many men working for the A.M. degree. For a number of years it has been the policy of that institution to admit a substantial minority of men from universities of no particular standing. These men come to Harvard from small colleges, poorly equipped for the high standard of work expected in the Graduate School. Chief among their difficulties is the failure to possess a knowledge of two foreign languages, a fundamental requirement for the A.M. degree. By allowing...
...slogan, epitomizing his personal philosophy as well as his scientific theories. Cosmic rays, he has time & again told the world, are born of the creation of matter in interstellar space. Last week in London, before most of the world's greatest physicists, Dr. Millikan was ready to admit, and did admit, that cosmic rays seem to be offspring of destruction as well as of creation...