Word: ashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight first Freshman oarsmen whipped brand new oars into the choppy Charles yesterday afternoon in a 9-mile workout to the dam and back. Said stroke Wagner of the shiny ash blades: "They're too whippy to have a hard catch. But they're made by Pocock for $20 apiece so they ought to be all right...
...strength of her performance in The Man Who Played God, Warners signed her to an eleven-year contract. Her hair rinsed to an ash blonde from its natural medium shade, she set out to try to justify for Warners the glamorous canard that she was "a schoolgirl Constance Bennett." It was not until Cabin in the Cotton (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932), with Richard Barthelmess, that she got a chance to develop her stripe of cinemeanness. Two years later RKO borrowed her for the role of hateful, shrewish, supremely selfish Mildred in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (TIME...
...onto the world's widest roller table-98 inches. Under the direction of a few men pushing buttons, it whizzes down the table considerably faster than Glenn Cunningham runs the mile. Whisssh, with a scream of scalding steam as cold water plays on it to wash off ash and scale, it dives under the first of ten "stands"- gigantic sets of rollers each as high as a three-story house and weighing as much as 450 tons apiece. As steam billows in a cloud, the writhing slab flattens out under these successive squeezes until it is a hundred-yard...
...average concentrator is left to his own devices while the superior student who can better choose his own needs is handicapped. It is hoped that sometime in the not-too-distant future the English Department will either find a better method of encouragement or consign classical requirements to the ash-can where they belong...
...Ash Tray...