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Word: existences (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colleges and schools at the present time frequently obtain dramatic directors who know no more about the art than the students themselves. What is worse, there is a tendency in college dramatic courses, where they exist, to call acting 'self expression'. This it most certainly is not. The one and most important task of the actor is to make himself a perfect instrument through which to express the character and feelings of others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IRVINE INTERPRETS ART OF THE DRAMA | 12/3/1927 | See Source »

Methods. There exist mechanical and chemical means of preventing conception. But it is illegal in this country to tell your neighbor about them. Section 211 of the Federal Penal Code forbids that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth Control | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...CRIMSON once before tried to praise the work of Harvard's gallant musicians. The effort was misinterpreted. Lest any doubt still exist, let it be said that in the opinion of this paper no Harvard band has exceeded Mr. Holland's cohorts on Saturday in whatever it is that makes a band good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 41 TO 0 | 11/22/1927 | See Source »

Yale has come up to Cambridge and Harvard has gone down to New Haven often enough to take for granted all ceremonial expressions of good-fellowship. The CRIMSON, however, has yet to grow tired of trying to psychoanalyze the very amicable relations which exist now and always have existed between the two universities. Sometime it hopes to lay its ink besmeared finger on that at present indefinable quality which makes a Yale man fit so pleasantly, if temporarily, into the Cambridge scene. If it fails in its introspection the cause will lie in the fact that certain things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER ALL-- | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...Annela Bailey, the prettier of the two women on the dismissed jury, unburdened herself: "Is it really a fact that the Supreme Court passed on a case exactly like this one, that it was a civil one, and found that a conspiracy did exist? Wouldn't we have looked foolish if we had given a verdict just the opposite of the Supreme Court's!... What do people like us know about such a case as this?" Mrs. Bailey said that Lawyer Martin W. Littleton of the defense looked "slick" to her, and "more like a teddy bear than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Oil On a Jury | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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