Word: containers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joyous Season (by Philip Barry; Arthur Hopkins, producer) is a solemn and sometimes sprightly investigation of the spiritual life of a family of shell-backed Bostonians. The Parleys live in a dingily magnificent mansion of Beacon Street. Their farm on the Merrimac River and the possibility that existence may contain more for them than security on a "careful, calm, contented four percent" are two of the things that they remember when the maverick of the family, Sister Christina (Lillian Gish), arrives from the nunnery to spend Christmas. Before Christina arrives, the Parleys are worried mainly because they think...
...economic or religious views. Because of the intense interest exhibited by TIME readers in many a question to which TIME'S Letter Page cannot give adequate space, TIME is preparing a Letter Page Supplement which will be mailed, free, to any TIME reader on request. This supplement will contain an overflow of controversy, correction and information on TIME subjects ranging from Oklahoma's Chief Justice to Prize Lies, from Andrew Jackson's pipe-smoking wife to the Loch Ness Monster. To obtain a copy of the Letter Page Supplement, write to I. Van Meter, editorial secretary...
Most players enjoy these holdings less frequently than they should. They cheat themselves out of juicy hands by hasty or unskillful shuffling which does not produce true random distribution. After a hand of play the pack is composed of 13 tricks the great majority of which contain three or four cards of like suit. If the deal is made from this unshuffled pack, each player will get one card from each trick, and the result will be a number of 3-and 4-card suits typical of weak hands. Poor shuffling does not correct this tendency. After examining hundreds...
...most obvious remedy for this lamentable situation is to provide more books containing only elementary and popular course exams like History 1, Economics A and Physics C for which the demand is greatest. The bound books that now contain everything in a given department from, say, the lower reaches of Slavic 4 to the higher reaches of Indic Philology would then no longer exist quite so much for the benefit of one student to the exclusion of all the potential intermediate beneficiaries. However, the most effective method of accomplishing this result in its entirely would be to stock the library...
Said Dr. Dunham: "This shows quite definitely that if the atmosphere of a planet should contain oxygen the presence of that gas would be revealed to an outside observer...