Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Medical Association last week notified the profession that a number of children, chiefly of school age, have developed brain infections shortly after smallpox vaccinations. The vaccinations may have affected the brains. But that is not certain. Risks of smallpox are infinitely greater than risks of such encephalitis. Vaccination must not be avoided...
...noted by terse, keen recording angels with a flair for cross-reference. Tendencies lurking secretly behind chance acts are revealed. The Hill is thus gently turning to scrupulous study of the individual boy. It can advise and knows how best to phrase its advice. It knows too when certain students for one or another reason will find only unhappiness or failure in the looming college years...
...scenario with an average plot is aided very little by the directing. It is very noticeable that certain of the casting was done with an eye to the person's voice with the result that in certain minor roles an inexperience is shown which was not so obvious in the declasse pantomime pictures...
...perhaps even greater significance to Harvard's educational effectiveness are the implications of the conflict between scholarly production and teaching development. The following complaint of a certain tutor will scarcely be dismissed as unique: "With a doctor's degree and an assistant professorship in my possession I have now just reached the point where I can appreciate the teaching possibilities of my position. I should like to settle down for ten years and devote my best energies toward perfecting myself as a teacher. But no, I must speed up research, publish, produce otherwise I'm soon out of the race...
Baclanova's foreign accent adds a certain bizarre quality which is a distinct addition to production. Her acting is not of the best calibre and yet she leaves a distinct impression of talent...