Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue in France is constitutional as well as political. M. Herriot, given a majority in the recent elections, urges the revolutionary proposal that the President's term end at his party's defeat. This leader of the strong Radical Party also recently outlined his political beliefs. "The corner stone of all fiscal reform is the income tax." "The formula for the future is cooperative production." "I cannot admit that the wage-contract represents the final form of labor bargain." The lengths to which the party may go is suggested by the threat of a leading member who said...
...Code of the Sea. This picture contains some very authentic thrills, even laying hold of the sophisticated cinema-goer who knows there is a happy ending around the corner. It has the most legitimate and engrossing scenes of a shipwreck and rescue at sea ever plastered on the films. This concerns the efforts of the young commander of a light-ship to rescue his beloved and her party, clinging to a yacht that is impaled on treacherous reefs. They are gradually carried off by grace of the wireless and the breeches buoy. The young commander, who must absolve himself from...
...photographic film (it can be used wet, direct from the developing bath) is held taut and curved in the form of a cylinder, like an old-fashioned phonograph record. Light, from an ordinary automobile lamp, is passed through a lens and concentrated in a small spot at one corner of the film. At the receiving station a blank film is formed into a similar cylinder. By a device known as a synchronizer, the cylinders at both ends are started simultaneously and turned at the same rate of speed. The light beam travels in a continuous line over the picture, until...
...radical? it was still a radical, but a mealy-mouthed radical. By this means it hoped to gain advertising. It succeeded in part. Business began to bring some advertising to the Star's pages, but not enough. The grim receiver with scythe and hourglass was waiting around the corner...
...Unfortunately a part of one corner of the chapel had caved in, covering many important figures, which, owing to the limited size of our expedition--it consisted only of Mr. H. H. F. Jayne '20, myself and three native Mongolians--we were unable to clear off the tons of debris...