Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Broadway's producers, who in the crucial moment of selection are most swayed by the prospect of fat boxoffice returns, have of late staked their ultimate pennies on the play of the theatre. Of this description "Ballyhoo," "The Shannons of Broadway," "Burlesque," "The Wild Man of Borneo," "The Barker," and "Broadway" have been the most notable, the last-named two even leaving the secure delights of a Manhattan audience to brave with confident melodrama what is now known throughout the profession as the Boston titter...
...think we will all agree is the crucial test of a given state of civilization, is with us the weakest link in our chain of government. . . ." Mr. Untermyer then suggested spurs to "leaden-footed" U. S. justice-assessing dishonest litigants more heavily, taking action against perjurers...
...Cutts '28 or Willard Howard '28 is the pitching probability for Harvard. One of these two twirlers will in all likelihood start the second tilt of the Yale series, and should have an opportunity to display his hurling wares, in a final engagement before the crucial Eli clashes...
...them. We must fortify our navy and make our air force so strong and numerous that its roaring motors will drown all other sounds, its shadow hide the sun over Italian soil. We will be able then, between 1935 and 1940, when I believe there will be a crucial point in European history, finally to make our voice heard and see our rights recognized...
...than ever, must be on such a large scale and so powerful that the noise of its motors must surpass any other noise, and the area of the wings of our airplanes must obscure the sun from our land. Then between 1935 and 1940, when we shall reach the crucial point in European history, we will be able to make our voice heard, and see at last our rights acknowledged [loud, repeated applause]. This preparation requires some years more...