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Word: class (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plays slow, plays alone, and plays with orchestra. He is called on for almost no acting, which seems a shame, for he has a very pleasant manner. With his $70,000 Stradivarins tucked firmly under his chin, Heifetz produces a kind of beauty that puts this movie in a class by itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

Capitalizing on recent interest in movie history, 20th Century Fox has delved back into the files and brought out two scenes of slap-stick that make modern movie comedy look like a first-class funeral. The first includes Buster Keaton, Alice Faye, an unnamed villain, and an apparently limitless supply of creamy custard pies. There is a certain emotional release about a custard pie flying through the air destined for some carefully made-up face. It is a shame that the idea has been abandoned, for many modern pictures might be livened up immeasurably with the sudden appearance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

Students recommended by their tutors are placed on Plan B in their Junior or Senior years. The Dean's Office has not record of the Junior Class figures, but it is presumed that there has been a similar reduction in the number of Plan B students in the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors on Plan B Tutorial Work Fewer in Second Year of Program | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

...Division of History, Government, and Economics carries most of the tutorial burden as almost half the Senior Class concentrates in the Social Sciences. Of the 324 Seniors in the Division only 66 are now on Plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors on Plan B Tutorial Work Fewer in Second Year of Program | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

...express his genius with a notable and economical directness. His speech then is not merely brief; it is repetitive, it rolls back on itself, it picks up its theme and tosses it to us again, with rich improvements." This is a kind of theorizing which is surely in a class by itself...

Author: By Milton Crane, | Title: The Bookshelf | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

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