Word: even
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Even the most blase member of the audience will enjoy the short Technicolor sound reel of "Mary and Her Lamb...
...Fisher, "is a closer contact between Harvard and the Southwest, and we took this football game as a short-cut to our goal. You know, two strange business men can get closer together in an afternoon of golf than they might in weeks of correspondence, phone calls, or even business visits. It is the same in inter-university matters, and we indulge the hope that this football game will quickly engender an intersectional fraternalism between Harvard and the Southwest which could not be brought about by formalism and purely academic interchanges and contacts. Harvard has an ambition to be more...
...could do on Saturday was to gain an unimpressive 7 to 7 tie with the Phillips Exeter team. The 1933 team was trailing 7 to 0 at the end of the half but came, back in the latter part of the game with a score that put them on even terms...
After three weeks of the says-you-says-ME policy Keith's offers a most refreshing antithesis in "The Four Devils". This picture takes the not too hackneyed subject of the circus as its theme. Murnau, director of "Sunrise", here too handles distinctively even such commonplaces as a fight by means of skillful photography; and his shots of the naturally more promising trapeze acts are excellent. For about two-thirds of the film the emotional moments are smoothly presented, with the gaps in slow-moving scenes filled in by the musical accompaniment; but as soon as the dialogue begins...
...that there are several obvious fallacies in the arguments of those who uphold the thesis that the colleges are headed for hell and damnation because the stadiums are packed on autumn Saturday afternoons. In the first place, the only sport about which the undergraduate, at least at Harvard, is even inclined to be irrational, is football, and football extends through about two months of the nine-month college year. Perhaps those alarmists will concede the possibility of a little study being accomplished by the undergraduates in the remaining seven months of the year...