Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interesting experiment he must possess himself of the secret of a new explosive which, when properly applied, is empowered to rupture the Rock of Gibraltar. The heroine (Shirley Mason) constitutes herself chaperone to the only vial of the explosive in existence. Her temperamental charge puts her through a rapid array of situations, such as: rescued from a motorboat by airplane at 50 miles an hour; shelled out of the airplane and then out of a parachute; escaped through the torpedo tubes of a submerged submarine. It may be inferred that the picture is gorgeously impossible, rabidly exciting. As a fitting...
President Meiklejohn believed that his theory could best be realized by keeping Amherst a small College. He was, furthermore, inevitably opposed to mediocre teaching. And he was against the use of professional coaches in college athletics. .The result was to array against himself those older alumni who disapproved of his educational ideas and resented a system which trained young men to ask questions, the teachers whom he had been compelled to remove, the graduates who thought of their College as a booster thinks of his home town and whose ambition was a "bigger, better Amherst," and the alumni...
...character--perhaps the post--is an incongruous philosopher who talks a Latinized American appropriate to the name of Umfraville. The three together, and occasionally this incidental fourth work out their lives in studied contemplation. Every act is done "off-stage" the poet chooses only moment of inner conflict to array upon his stage of words; and yet he offers clues to imagination for the rest that give if life. Prolixity at time intrudes; and his inordinate concern for their domestic trivialities is sometimes tedious and a bit absurd--bathos, perhaps. Consider Gabrielle's expostulating with the guest at breakfast...
...associated with lawn tennis for a number of years. And appropriately so, for in no other amateur sport has there been the amount of international competition that has featured tennis in recent seasons. Davis Cup contests, the entry of American players in various European national championships and the reciprocal array of European and Australian stars in the American titular events have been of almost annual occurrence...
...latest tennis star to arrive in America seeking the Davis Cup is Masamosuke Fukuda, of the Japanese team. Fukuda, recent graduate of Waseda University, is described as a " sensation" on the courts of the Orient. His euphonious name completes an exotic array of players who will contend in the Davis Cup lists this year. The following are culled from the rosters of the French, Indian and Japanese teams: Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra, Lacoste, Fyzee Ramaswami, Ranga Rao, Jaga, Mohan Lai, Zenzo Shimidzu...