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Word: epic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...available celebrities in the same production has the advantage of giving unpretentious stories a tantalizing air of grandeur. Night Flight is an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's prize novel about the first night nights on a South American airmail route. Far from being an aviation "epic," it is really a study of an airmail port in operation at a crisis. The hero of the picture is not Jules Fabian (Clark Gable), whose plane is blown to sea by a cyclone, forced down by lack of fuel, but Riviere (John Barrymore), the general manager of the air lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 16, 1933 | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

...Golden Harvest," this week's feature at the Metropolitan, is a mild bit of adventure apparently inspired by the time-honored farm problem. The producers give taint intimations of attempting an epic but, being unable to solve the problem of surplus wheat any better than a Farm Beard, they content themselves with merigages and government aid for the farmers...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...again in its violent manner. Maggots in the cabbage soup brought about the Cabbage Rebellion, and minor bickering continued until the outbreak of 1819, the "great Rebellion" which combined a hunger strike, and walk-out of 30 students, weird wardances, bonfires, a battle-royal of tableware, and a noted epic "The Rebelliad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 7/18/1933 | See Source »

Princeton University Astronomer Harlow Shapley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. Historian James Truslow Adams (The Epic of America) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Litt.D. Author Andre Maurois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Herbert Putnam, director of the Library of Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Samuel Seabury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Henry Lewis Stimson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos Jun. 26, 1933 | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pa.) Historian James Truslow Adams (Epic of America) . . .L.H.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos Jun. 19, 1933 | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

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