Word: blending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thursday morning sees more than three centuries of Harvard history blend in the formal ceremony that surrounds the Commencement of the latest class to leave the University. Finally, Friday, comes the general tapering off, from which stand out the exercises of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
Russia's planes are a curious blend of adaptation from abroad and original development at home. The planes that flew to the Pole were of the ANT6 four-motored bomber type. Lumbering, ungraceful things with highly tapered wings and bicycle landing gear which does not retract, they have little merit beyond big payloads. Instead of developing practical improvements, Russia's designers tend to go head-over-crupper for such fantastic devices as the P-5 biplanes whose fat lower wings open up to provide coffin-like niches in which 14 soldiers can snuggle. Most successful of Russia...
While today eyes of the civilized world in general and the English speaking world in particular turn together, blend in unison on one fond family in a foreign capital, comes the news, regular as clockwork: Widener Library has a coronation exhibit...
...smart for him and his girl friends, whom she converts by a great display of sheer innocence into her friends instead of his. Actor MacKenna (Merrily We Roll Along, Accent on Youth) has been playing erring dramatists so long he should be able to present the required blend of boyish and goatish behavior even though in the throes of somnambulism. Linda Watkins (June Moon) is equally adept at impersonating the girl whose shrewdness is masked by wide-open eyes and naive questions. Between them, they should manage to keep Penny Wise on the boards well into the peony season...
...more than it had in Philadelphia at its world premiere last fortnight. The choir of strings sang out lovely melodies, the instrumentation was competent, but the work as a whole was disorganized. Decided the Herald Tribune's Lawrence Gilman: "It has much of his familiar quality-his blend of sombre brooding and lyrical expansiveness and defiant gaiety. But the eminent Russian has said most of it before, in substance, and has said it with more weight and felicity and salience." The Times's Olin Downes proposed: "Would not a pair of shears benefit the proportions of this work...