Word: expended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lots. Slapped together as cheaply as possible, these "quota" films are even more of an imposition on British audiences than "summer fare" on U. S. audiences. Gaumont, explained Isidore Ostrer last week, will up its production from 24 pictures per year to "almost double that amount and on those expend far larger sums than were hitherto expended by the three competitive enterprises...
...Lamps of China (Warner). When Hollywood producers last year were forbidden to make pictures as salacious as they wanted, they issued yelps that censorship would make the cinema more childish than it had been. As usual, their alarm was groundless. Forced to expend their inventiveness upon subjects other than sex, U. S. cinema producers in the last year have for the first time taken a sophisticated interest in social problems. In Black Fury, Warner Brothers presented a provocative and, for the cinema, daring portrait of the miseries of coal miners. Oil for the Lamps of China is another picture containing...
...shifting local loyalties." In 180 pages Adams retells, with balanced impartiality, the story of the Civil War, concludes: "The essence of our national tragedy has been that the section of our new country in which the humane view and way of life developed first should . . . have been forced ... to expend its intellectual energies against the trend of the age, to lose its wealth, and to be left in rum and without its proper and essential influence on the rest of the nation, which sorely needed, as it needs today, what the South had to give." Because "no type of property...
...Casey wrote Horween last September, saying: "You'll be welcome anytime." The answer will be had when a final estimate of Harvard's performance today is available. It may take a lot of valiant battling to tame that Bulldog, but it seems to be that Harvard is ready to expend that energy...
...German B and French B, two courses which are regarded as very difficult in point of time spent. The men who choose these roads to the modern languages are supposed to spend five hours a week in attending the stated meetings of their class; presumably, a serious student would expend two hours a night besides, in preparing of the recitations and in doing the reading; an exceptionally hard worker might devote three hours five times a week to the study of his French or German. Thus the maximum estimate of time required for these courses is twenty hours a week...