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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little is known of the Kendall outfit, except that they defeated a Manter Hall team by a large and unidentified score. "They say they're more used to a shovel than a broom," an interpreter for the Widow's octette, who speak no English, said at the close of the encounter...
This addition followed the reading of the results of the referendum, which was made by mail. Supporting the first point of the Vassar platform, with a close vote of 109 to 90, the Union showed its support of collective action in naming the aggressor in a war and in acting accordingly with sanctions...
Picked for Jezebel's heroine was an actress largely overlooked in Gone With the Wind's nationwide parlor-casting bees, but one who came close to what the public seemed to want in Scarlett. That actress was Bette Davis-tempestuous, intense, compact & casehardened, with diamond dust in her voice, bug eyes lit with a cold blue glitter, and as wide a dramatic range as any cinemactress in the business...
Since the silent-film days the cinema has kept fairly close to earth. To figure out how men in other worlds might look was, to the vaulting cineminds who conceived pictures like A Trip to Mars, By Rocket to the Moon, Jupiter's Thunderbolt, a mild exercise in ingenuity. But how such out-planeters might talk, especially in conversation with men from Hollywood, has lately presented a weighty problem in linguistics. Flash Gordon is fortunate enough to find some English-speaking Martians, but with true comic-strip vigor, he usually manages to make actions speak louder than words...
...fact that most Fellows will take courses in the social sciences next fall has little significance for the policy of selection as compared with two others--namely, that the Far West and New York City were completely omitted, while New England, close to the bottom in its number of applications, provided two Fellows. In addition to equalizing the distribution, officials may well consider whether it is essential to choose the entire Committee on Nieman Fellowships from the Board of Overseers. Harvard should not be afraid to look beyond for a committee which will award future Fellowships to the most competent...