Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. last February, a more deadly battle at Republic Steel's mill in South Chicago on Memorial Day. In Ohio, Governor Davey unsuccessfully tried mediation, but for three weeks the steel towns of the Mahoning Valley were armed camps, with steel mills under siege and casual fracases occurring at frequent intervals. In short, when serious labor trouble was batted out to them, each in turn had muffed the chance to achieve a settlement without civil commotion...
Slave Ship is not for the squeamish. Its eight reels contain an incredible amount of knifing, jaw-punching, conking on the head, lashing in chains, shooting, slapping and assorted casual brutalities. Sometimes its violence is shrewdly planned and powerful; sometimes, particularly when Director Tay Garnett uses for comedy the same form of physical surprise which a moment earlier he was using for horror, it is inept. But the action is generally lusty and well-integrated. Best minor role: Mickey Rooney as the resolute, bewildered cabin boy whose loyalty veers hazardously between the brutal mate and the romantic skipper...
...purpose to argue the relative merits of various fishing spots on the Texas coast. They are all good. It is our hope, however, that you will print this letter to correct an entirely erroneous impression that the casual reader might form of fishing on the coast of the Port Isabel-Brownsville section, so that justice may be done...
...eagerness with which these men have been employed is significant of the need which exists. It is, furthermore, proof of the fact that public administrators are coming to recognize that the control of traffic is not a casual problem nor one which can be solved satisfactorily by untrained personnel. One of the most hopeful signs is the fact that a number of the graduates have been given positions in jurisdictions where they are not residents and where no conceivable political influence could have been brought to bear upon their selection...
With 265 concentrators, History is one of the five largest fields in the University. The calibre of the men and the organization of the department make it outstanding in the country, as was said last year, but it is definitely no place for the casual student...