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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the cinema's attitude toward mother love. Always Goodbye sheds no new light on the subject, but sound motivation, civilized dialogue, several noteworthy minor performances and Producer Darryl Zanuck's customary flair combine to lift the film well above the average of sentimental social drama. Best bit parts: the stereotyped roles of an excitable barber and a mercenary Paris taxi driver, brought to life respectively by Eddy Conrad and George Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 4, 1938 | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...started off practice from their Rep Top quarters on June 11 with a time trial, the Freshman pacing the Varsity for the first two miles. The following Monday Coach Bolles put the Crimson sweepers through a vigorous workout, a five-mile no-stop, stretch which found the Varsity a bit unsteady and rough in spots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Great Crews Clash at New London Friday Evening | 6/22/1938 | See Source »

...been sold to a Tammany leader of Representative Bloom's district, Congressmen demanded an investigation of the commission, eliminated a $50,000 appropriation for it. Last week, although Representative Bloom protested that $35,000 for the new picture would include the frame and cost of hanging, Congressmen, a bit fed up, rejected the resolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Congress Critics | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...their amazement, a jet of diabolic yellow flame spurted from the water, fizzled for several seconds before going out. When he passed the same way a quarter-hour later, the students were still arguing about how he did it. What the scientist had done was to conceal a bit of metallic sodium in a piece of paper in his hand. Sodium is so active chemically that it burns on contact with water. Dr. Wood's histrionics while spitting concealed the fact that he simultaneously dropped the sodium into the puddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prince | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...number three blade is Dud Talbot who was shifted at the eleventh hour last year to race against Yale. He ends the six-foot-three block which extends from the number seven to three position. John Richards '40 is at the two oar and while still a bit ragged has exceptional endurance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREW | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

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