Word: dissimilarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trumpler announced that he had solved the difficulty by measuring the redshift of nine "O" stars (hottest, brightest, heaviest in the sky) moving along in clusters with other stars. The redshift of these nine showed a marked excess over that of their companions which could not be due to dissimilar motion, must therefore be due to the restraining effect of their powerful gravitational fields on their radiated light...
...Right to Live (Warner). When a new actress arrives at a studio, the customary procedure is to put her in a succession of roles as dissimilar as possible, in order to find out in which category she fits best. Having "discovered" pretty Josephine Hutchinson in Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre, where she had been functioning for eight years, Warner's first experiment was a musical comedy (Happiness Ahead), in which her by no means untaxing assignment was to spend six reels listening to Dick Powell sing. With this out of the way, a good solid English sex-problem...
...impediment, won a 1932 Rhodes Scholarship. Rhodes Scholars must be, apart from brilliant scholarship and civilized deportment, fluent talkers. At the University of Iowa Professor Lee Edward Travis announced as a discovery "that nerve impulses which dominate the two sides of the speech mechanism are strikingly dissimilar when a person stutters...
...Like her small sister in She Wanted a Millionaire, Constance Bennett in this picture is an American girl who has adventures in France. She, too, is seen wearing fine feathers and patronizing Parisian cafes while trying to straighten out her romantic uncertainties, but in other respects the pictures are dissimilar. Constance, far from being the finalist in a beauty contest, is a girl of high degree who has found that the men she admires are unsusceptible to her charms. To make herself more desirable, she sets out to acquire a past, aided by a flip gigolo (Ben Lyon...
...Authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a country mouse, Mark Van Doren a town mouse. Their view of country people is dissimilar: Poet Warner's satirical, Poet Van Doren's nostalgic. Sylvia Townsend Warner lives alone in her house in England with a big black dog, believes in witches although she has never seen the devil in person. Other books: Lolly Willowes, Mr. Fortune's Maggot, The Espalier. Mark Van Doren, lean and serious onetime literary editor of the lean and radical Nation, has also written Spring Thunder, 7 P.M. and Other Poems...