Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Well, perhaps the enthusiasm in the stands "ain't what it used to be," but that does not mean that a supreme effort on the part of Captain Reid's team would not be appreciated in a quiet manner by the present-day undergraduates. On paper the die is cast against Harvard; on the cinders, in the shot, discuss and hammer circles and in the jumping and vaulting pits the story may be something else again. Everlasting enthusiasm and spirit has been crowned by success in the past...
...Consider a house which is primarily a machine to live in, which can be manufactured in mass, assembled at service stations and delivered in 24 hours, costing as a minimum $500 a ton. Its translucent watts is of casein, its inflatable doors and floors, its collapsible mast, its bathroom cast in a piece--all these were fantastic items to catch the imagination. However as many architects from the school and offices of the vicinity have honored the 4D plan with more than an incredible smile...
There can be no question as to the merit of Blanche Yurka's production of "The Wild Duck". From start to finish it is admirably set forth. Well cast, well staged, and with somewhat more of real life instilled into it through fine directing than is the lot of most Ibsen plays, it deserves the praise which all those who have seen it have showered upon...
...ruling was occasioned by a dispute over the right of women members of the church to address the convention, to cast votes. Dr. John William Porter, editor of the American Baptist, stormily opposed gallant Dr. Truett. "We go right against the Scriptures!" he warned his undisputed brethren. "We break a precedent of 2,000 years!" Dr. Truett silenced his brother by quoting the Southern Baptist constitution...
...terrible and though the tangible results seem vague. The very fact that we are here thinking and talking of these things means some thing. Culture turns on a slow wheel. . . . It is as incredible that Don Mellett's self-sacrifice, dying that others might live, will fail to cast its radiance upon striving millions as that the morning Summer sun shall fail to awaken the sleeping earth, open the petals of the nodding flowers and scatter the miasmic mists of darkness. This is the measure of our faith...