Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With British statesmen on holiday, dispatches from London last week were nonetheless rich in British character:
Eighteen boys in the Middle West selected for outstanding ability and character from more than three hundred top-ranking high school and private school competitors in the area, have been awarded prize fellowships to enter Harvard College this fall, President James B. Conant announced here tonight. These are the highest...
Lux. Most ambitious dramatic broadcasting by cinemactors is done in the "Lux Radio Theatre," which started modestly two years ago as a program emanating on Sunday afternoons from Manhattan's Radio City. Policy of the program was to pick up cinemactors who had gone East for some fun. Top...
Out of this welter of jokes, proverbs, signs, schoolboy howlers, stories, wisecracks, the character of the people gradually emerges, hardbitten, hardworking, unaffected, forever asking two great questions that set the theme of the book: "Where to? What next?" Sandburg puts down with equal approbation a catalog of the casual heroisms...
Since the entire book thus revolves around Selma, it is primarily of interest as a character study of a girl who hovers at the edge of a neurotic revulsion against the role of her sex. Raised in a commonplace, puritanical Iowa town, Selma thought one of her schoolmates was going...