Word: delay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young love reunited, We Live Again is comparatively faithful to its Russian original. In the earlier sequences where young Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov (Fredric March) goes to church with Peasant Katusha Maslova (Anna Sten), before seducing her in a greenhouse. Director Rouben Mamoulian allows his fondness for his scene to delay his story. Later, when Dmitri, a bearded patrician in the jury box, again meets Katusha, a prostitute accused of murder, the class antagonism which put them where they are is carefully accented to make more impressive Dmitri's gestures of remorse. The climax, in which he gives away his lands...
...possible that, after the customary delay, some startling new scientific information may be forthcoming from last week's adventure. But the record of eight stratosphere flights by man makes it seem unlikely. Whether undertaken for science or as record-breaking stunts they were for the most part either comedies or tragedies. The stratosphere itself was discovered from the ground. In 1896 a French meteorologist named Teisserenc de Bort sent up sounding balloons with automatic instruments, discovered a calm, cold layer of air of uniform temperature, beginning six miles up. In 1927 Captain Hawthorne Gray of the U. S. Army...
...Shaughnessy, already well known for his work in California and Hawaii. The War and work on Hetch Hetchy began together. But nothing was to stop the slow growth of the project through the next two decades. As time passed there were the usual impatient charges of waste, incompetence, delay. Engineer O'Shaughnessy parried these thrusts with Irish eloquence, plodded on with his immense, laborious job-cutting miles of roads, laying miles of pipeline, boring miles of tunnels, pouring thousands of tons of concrete. Trouble piled on trouble. In the Coast Range tunnel ground swelled and shifted. There were quicksands...
...direction-to make the brakes on the last car of a train work as soon as those on the first. On passenger trains, the brake action is practically simultaneous on every car. But on a long freight it takes an appreciable time for the air pressure to equalize. A delay of as little as nine seconds may cause "buckling''-cars popping off the tracks. More serious in the long run is the wear & tear caused by cars crashing against each other. But in their desperate search for operating economies the railroads are running longer & longer trains...
...order to finish the tournament without delay, both a semi-final and the final match were played at once. Woodberry still had his semi-final round to play with Elliott K. Shapira '35 on Wednesday, so all three men went around together, and at the end it developed that Woodberry had beaton Shapira and Garland had vanquished Woodberry so the former was the champion...