Word: akin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abbreviating for three years as G With the W. They were conscious of participating in a national event, of seeing a picture it had taken three yea~s to make from a novel it had taken seven years to write. They knew it had taken two years and something akin to genius to find a girl to play Scarlett O'Hara. They knew it had cost more ($3,850,000) to produce the picture than any other in cinema history except Ben Hur ($4,500,000) and Hell's Angels ($4,000,000). They knew...
...impression that it is laughing at itself and having a delightful time all the while. A fresh and often amusing plot jogs in and out and around a score of singing and dancing sequences formidably staged by Vincente Minnelli, reaching a high when Hiram Sherman narrates in something akin to blank verse "The Strange Case of Adam Standish" and a "Ballet Peculiare" in fantastic costumes acts out his words with fantastic action...
...Groupers") on the Pacific Coast with such insight and accuracy [TIME, July 31]. I know I speak the minds of many plain, ordinary church members, who hesitate to sound anything like a harsh note . . . when I say that the ballyhoo of these spiritual high-pressurists fills them with something akin to nervous suspicion and mistrust...
...make music easier to read. Southern Harmony contained a treatise on the rudiments of music, and such observations on singing as: "All affectation should be banished, for it is disgusting in the performance of sacred music, and contrary to that solemnity which should accompany an exercise so near akin to that which will through all eternity engage the attention of those who walk in climes of bliss." Said "Singin' Billy": "I would rather have A.S.H. after my name than P-r-e-s in front...
When this investigation was first proceeding, there was raised the question of whether or not to allow Varsity men to compete in sports closely akin to those in which the Varsity men made their mark. And it was the unanimous opinion of the Committee that such men added much needed dignity to the House sports. Under the plan now proposed this dignity has been given serious consideration and was one of the cornerstones upon which we built...