Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later years things calmed down a bit, though the Theatre and its non-Harvard patrons were constantly plagued by club and organization initiation stunts. During the late 20's the UT played one silent picture featuring an alarm clock which woke up the hero in several crucial scenes. During an afternoon showing just as the camera focused on the clock, the theatre was suddenly split by a tremendous shrieking of alarm clocks. "The next morning our ushers alone picked up 25 or so clocks which the students left behind them," Sumner recalls...
Short pieces by John Crowe Ransom, Pierre Emmanuel, and Carvel Collins present a scattering of interesting comments and opinions. Unfortunately, a complex and timely argument on "The Responsibility of the Artist" by Archibald MacLeish is marred by the omission of several lines of type at a crucial point...
...this, however, is but a pebble on a beach compared to the crucial problem of financial aid. Of the $375,000 that was earned last year by men registered with the Office--College and Law School--$215,000 was term-time work, $160,000 summer. Undergraduates accounted for over $200,00 of this...
...Cologne talk, Bruening said that Hitler's disavowal of the Locarno Treaty was the crucial step that brought about the second World War and Germany's eclipse as a world power. "For such misdeeds of the Hitler period," he said, "the German nation today is paying and will continue to pay for some time." Else-where in his speech, Bruening gave high praise to the work of German exchange students at Harvard...
...Manhattan last week, a distinguished British elder statesman rose to address the Foreign Policy Association. As wartime ambassador to Washington, Lord Halifax had been entrusted by Winston Churchill with a crucial job in building wartime cooperation between the U.S. and Britain. Halifax, now 70, spoke with grave pride of "the close companionship, in peace as in war, of your people and mine...