Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caricature of Josef von Sternberg. Trade papers tittered that Stand-In laughed at the motion picture industry. The last is true, but the laughter is large, warming and contagious. Stand-in is not an acrid satire like Once in a Lifetime or Boy Meets Girl, but a panel of broad, sure dimensions. It shows the bottom as well as the top, emphasizing that the vast army of skilled film technicians, the grips and pincers, the cutters and carpenters, are more pertinent to picture production than the overpublicized screwballs behind the big desks. Much of Stand-in's authentic atmosphere...
When in 1794 James Boswell lay dying, he wrote to his brother in London, asking him to deposit ?5 to the account of a Rev. Mr. Baron: "He takes charge of paying the gratuity to Mary Broad." This letter set investigators whoofing on the trail of another promising secret of Boswell's abundant life. At trail's end was: no dirt, as had been half expected, but further data on a seldom-mentioned side of the little man-his interest in prison reform. Mary Broad, it turns out, was the alias of one Mary Bryant, who was convicted...
...truth is that the instrument hasn't a broad enough beam for its height. Since the drumheads are approximately six feet in diameter, the surface area of each is about 28 1-4 square feet, if you remember your plane geometry. When the calfskin is hit a good wallop, this makes quite a radius of vibration; unfortunately the sides are so close together that most of it is dissipated inside the drum, producing a low tone that doesn't carry very far. But the tone is there nevertheless, and the claim that the real boom is produced by a smaller...
...Field events will be held on the Freshman track field and will start at 3:15 o'clock Broad jump, high jump, and shot put are scheduled...
Sparks Sorlien took the 160-yard dash in 17 seconds fiat. Sorlien is a Varsity sprinter and broad-jumper. Freshman Robert Russell, a middle distance man, was second to Sorlien, and R. H. Abernathy, Jr. '41 was third. The 80-yard dash was won by F. G. Neal in 8.4 seconds. Partlow and Sorlien were second and third...