Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also under way were two projects which may prove to be Ford's most important contribution to national defense. One project is a 12-cylinder, 1,500-1,700 h.p., liquid-cooled airplane engine, with cast instead of forged cylinder sleeves and many simplifications of design. If that engine passes its laboratory tests successfully, it may be the answer to the industry's dream: an airplane engine which can be mass-produced...
Nice Girl? resembles a shiny Rolls-Royce that won't run. Carried in its cast is a selection of Hollywood's most polished performers-'Robert Benchley, Walter Brennan, Helen Broderick, Franchot Tone. But their efforts to keep the aimless, insipid Richard Connell-Gladys Lehman screen play afloat are like the haphazard courage of doomed men. Benchley as a widower highschool principal with three lightheaded daughters (Deanna, Anne Gwynne, Ann Gillis) looks as if he were trying to get by unrecognized. Since there is no observable plot, the rest of the characters just meander around the Benchley household...
When the World War I boom refills Adam's purse, back comes the governess and everything begins to look like old times even though the cast has aged. But the war catches some of them, produces a troublesome little wife (Susan Hayward) for son David (Johnny Downs), who goes abroad with the Canadian Air Force...
...longer can any son of Eli or Nassau deny that Harvard men are the ultimate connoisseurs of what's what in feminine pulchritude. The "savior faire" of the son's of "Veritas" was officially recognized when nine men were asked by the American Society of Beauty Culturists to cast their unbiased glances over numerous contributions to what makes a strong man meek submitted by Wilfred Academy...
Seven hundred and fourteen votes registered approval of the Smoker Committee's suggestion to compensate for the $200 reduction in Student Council funds by charging an admission price. Only 68 Yardlings cast votes in opposition to the measure...