Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson this week starts a policy of complete coverage of the projects and discoveries of the University's science departments. This article attempts to fill in the background on the Physics and Engineering Departments, and get up to date on their present undertakings. It is the first in a series of three stories...
...researchers want general background information and details about the student's college life. Questions will deal with the student's "drinking background" and what his parents think about fraternity beer parties and house parties where alcohol flows freely. Abstainers will be grilled to find out why they turn the stuff down...
Both pictures are also notable for music scores by Max Steiner. His melodic style makes the background much more than the usual dramatic cliches. It is a great and rare feeling to sit through a double feature and see two good films. Edward J. Sack
...Elsie Thomas. Over 2,450 miles, her daughter's voice spoke raggedly in her ear: "Emory is going to kill us. He has a gun. Talk him out of this awful thing." Emory was on the phone. As she heard her daughter's sobs in the background, Mrs. Thomas begged him, with paralyzed inadequacy: "Please-be a good boy." Her son-in-law's tense voice came back: "It's too late, Mama, it's too late...
Masson no longer sketches in pencil on the canvas. "It paralyzes the arrival of light," he says. "I now begin with a dark background and lighten it as my painting begins to live and grow like a pancake. Do you see the light in my painting? Is there not a certain freshness...