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Word: backgrounding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of isolated scenes. Even this impressionistic, kaleidoscopic technique might have created a unified effect had the production staff been able to set and maintain a snappy pace. But many of the scenes were punctuated with lengthy pauses, the sense of continuity sinking further and further into the background with each succeeding second of inactivity...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: Tbe Playgoer | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...Four-Part Setting - Ann Bridge -Little, Brown ($2.50). By the author of Peking Picnic, this sophisticated romance, with a Chinese background, stands out for its deft handling of romantic problems among the British embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Man Years | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Treaclish Warwick Deeping's Folly Island (Knopf, $2.50), a desperate romance against a background of British gardening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Man Years | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Over France today is the spectre of another march on Paris, another siege, another occupation. Worse still, there is peril from the air. But a "peace" worse than Versailles? Excusable, under any circumstances? Practical? Suddenly Vag decided to brush up on his background facts, and resolved to go to Harvard 6 this noon to hear Donald C. McKay on "Bismarck and the Unification of Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/6/1939 | See Source »

Professor Gilbert Chinard, of Princeton University, speaking last night in the Dunster House Common Room in the first of a series of informal House speeches sponsored by the American Civilization group, took as his subject "The European Background of Jefferson's Thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jefferson Uninfluenced by French Ideas, Says Chinard | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

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