Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Committed to drive the Leftist Army out of the Ebro River salient won in late July, Rightist troops last week made their seventh attempt in ten weeks. By week's end the latest drive had petered out. On the long dormant front near Aranjuez, south of Madrid, Rightists felt out the strength of Leftist lines in several short, minor thrusts...
...Student Union is another very live organization. Seldom dormant, this political left wing is constantly agitating, and has a lot of fun scrapping with the newly-formed Young Conservatives, or Young Independents, as they later came to be called. The Student Union sponsors many worth-while talks and debates on various subjects...
...dealer coercion were presently brought against the "big four" in Milwaukee, but the case fizzled when the judge discovered the Department of Justice trying to arrange a consent decree on the side (TIME, Nov. 22, et seq.). Since then this particular phase of the tripartite dealer investigation has lain dormant. Last week, however, the other two simultaneously came to a climax in Detroit at the annual convention...
...cinemaudiences, Gaumont British and Alexander Korda's London Film have been Britain's sprucest salesmen. Last week Gaumont British and Alexander Korda, proving that the British cinema industry is not entirely dormant, had two films apiece ready to join the U. S. Easter cinema parade. Of the four, the two less pretentious cost $450,000 each, represented the good homespun handiwork of which the British industry is capable when it is not making quota quickies or trying to imitate Hollywood's grand manner. The others were, important because they 1) cost about $1,000,000 each...
...reason or another) but a lot more are going to dislike the new Robert Taylor. He is a big, virile fellow--courtesy of M. G. M.--with incredible athletic prowess, a fine disdain for the weaker sex. He carries his beauty with boyish modesty. And just to rouse the dormant nationalism in the breast of every true American, he has gone to England--courtesy of M. G. M.--and taken it by storm. "A Yank at Oxford," now at Loew's, is a domestic flop which promises to become an international incident...