Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...precisely this point of view as contrasted with Norman Maine's own evaluation of his decline and its effect on his wife that gives the latter portion of A Star Is Born its effectiveness. The drunken speech in which Maine betrays his jealousy when his wife gets an Academy Award; his sojourn in a sanatorium to recover from the jitters; his fist fight with Niles's pressagent at Santa Anita race track, are related with superlative detachment. They lead up to the climactic scene in which sunset on the Pacific-a magnificent shot which is possibly the best...
...evening last week Apiarist Van de Poele went to Boston's Radio Station WEEI to talk about bees, took along a hive of 30,000 bees for sound effect. Nervous after his microphone ordeal, he struck the hive against a studio door, dropped it. Out with a horrid hum swarmed all 30,000 bees. While spectators and staff members fled, the beeman valiantly scooped his charges back into the studio with bare bands, slammed the door...
Breakfasts & Vigor. New Haven's Professor Howard Haggard claims that people have a much higher muscular efficiency after eating breakfast than in the fasting state. Last week Atlanta's John Haldi & associates said that eating breakfast has no effect on vigor...
...addicts). Symptoms of addiction were increased "grooming" (scratching, skin picking, hair plucking), restlessness, nocturnal activity, gastric and bowel disturbances, slight loss of weight, increased amiability and apparent sense of wellbeing. Curiously, the pupils of the ape addicts' eyes dilated, whereas those of human drug-takers contract. The sexual effect was mixed: shortly after receiving his dose the animal would mate readily, later fly into a rage and fight if a female was brought near. If deprived of the drug in the early stages of addiction, the chimpanzees showed few signs of discomfort except yawning, moping, sweating, salivation...
...case lies in the fact that every applicant for admission to the Medical School is automatically considered as a candidate for the "sliding scale" prize awards. This contrasts to the system in the College and Schools of Arts and Sciences and of Design, where the plan is also in effect, and where students make special application for the fellowships...