Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picturesque brilliance of the Tercentenary celebration has aroused a burst of energy in the CRIMSON photographic Board that will take long to shake. The unusual pictorial opportunities led to an immensely increased output of photographic material. Something upwards of a thousand pictures were taken in the course of the festivities and the excess initiative will force towards a return to the days when a CRIMSON pictorial was a weekly feature of the paper. The present board is all set to forge on and the advent of fresh ideas and new photographic techniques can only hasten the rise of the pictorial...
...Professor Attia's hand, drawled: "How do you do?" Next came delegates from Bologna, Paris, Oxford. Then up to the stage marched smiling Physicist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and four other dons from Cambridge. As Chemist Conant grinned broadly at Physicist Eddington, the long line of waiting scholars burst into applause...
Dodsworth (Walter Huston) who has just asked the steward for a drink that will soothe his nerves, whirls around, surprised. Mr. Dodsworth's surprise was nothing to that of Producer Sam Goldwyn and his staff when, at this line, I he audience at a Hollywood preview last week burst into applause. The applauders were not partisans of stout but of Mary Astor, whose first line they recognized even before the camera moved over to her. Throughout the picture they kept applauding frequently and as she was coming out of the theatre in the flesh with Screenwriter Marcus Goodrich...
...secretary of Idaho's other U. S. Senator, James Pinckney Pope, told how his employer had lately been passing through a small Idaho mining town, had seen two storekeeper brothers fistfighting, stopped them with a "burst of eloquence." Their argument was over whether to accept 50,000 shares of new mining stock from a gold prospector in payment of his $1,000 grocery bill. Last week Senator Pope learned that the brothers had taken the slock, had sold...
This was in many respects advantageous. For in the quiet of an inclosed auditorium the distinguished speakers of the afternoon were enabled to do full justice to a burst of inspiring addresses befitting the wind up of such a three-day calendar of ceremonies...