Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outlining the procedure followed in the department, Professor Holcombe pointed out that discussions of who should be advanced had started as far back as February. "Without that it would have been unreasonable to expect the department to reach a conclusion in the two week period between the acceptance of the Committee of Eight Report, May 22, and the announcement of the conclusions on June 3," he stated...
Sparking the backfield, McNicol and Loring should share the spotlight Saturday. Both have proved themselves competent runners with McNicol looking very good on fakes and as a pass-flinger. It looks as if either Glass or Camp might develop into an adequate blocking back, but for the present, Goldthwaite is quite secure in the berth he has held since the opening game...
...know he wasn't going to come back when he was reading the morning papers that day," declared a ward mate of Brill's, who has requested that his name be withheld. "He kept muttering 'He shouldn't be allowed in Boston,' after he had seen a notice that J. P. Marquand was to appear at the Book Fair of the Boston Herald-Traveler...
Capitalizing on recent interest in movie history, 20th Century Fox has delved back into the files and brought out two scenes of slap-stick that make modern movie comedy look like a first-class funeral. The first includes Buster Keaton, Alice Faye, an unnamed villain, and an apparently limitless supply of creamy custard pies. There is a certain emotional release about a custard pie flying through the air destined for some carefully made-up face. It is a shame that the idea has been abandoned, for many modern pictures might be livened up immeasurably with the sudden appearance...
...must be brief of phrase . . . He has made the most of this limitation. Artist that he is, he has accepted its challenge and employed it in effects that express his genius with a notable and economical directness. His speech then is not merely brief; it is repetitive, it rolls back on itself, it picks up its theme and tosses it to us again, with rich improvements." This is a kind of theorizing which is surely in a class by itself...