Word: expressibly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tracing the development of communication through the pioneering days of the stage coach, the Pony Express, and finally the first, crude railroads, "Wells-Fargo," which opens today at the University Theatre, is another of Paramount's glorified historical westerns. Following closely the pattern of "Covered Wagon" and "Cavalcade" and containing much of the familiar rough-and-tumble formula, it nevertheless is raised far above the average by its success in recreating the atmosphere of the pioneer times and in peopling history with real and living characters...
...express in your columns an opinion with respect to the "strong dissent" voiced by the Cambridge Union of University Teachers, A. F. of T., Local No. 431, to the passage in President Conant's Annual Report in which Mr.Conant says that it seems to him ". . . highly probable that a diminution in the total number of students in the universities of this country is desirable...
...cancel at one stroke the network of laws under which a French wife has been almost as much under her husband's authority as though she were a minor child, unable to sign a check without his countersignature, helpless to make a will or contract without his express approval, unable to leave France or appear on the stage in France should he forbid...
...Since the Diaspora (their dispersal from Palestine) Jews have followed many gods. Modern Jews have espoused two diametrically opposed causes: 1) Radicalism (which promises Jews a society without racial prejudice) and 2) Zionism (which promises Jews a national home in Palestine). While leftist-minded Jewish composers tend to express themselves in the tuneless technicalities of modernism, or in the Negroid dialect of jazz, Zionist-minded Jewish composers seek a purely Jewish variety of concert music, color their symphonies and sonatas with the traditional chants of the ancient Hebrews...
...great international fairs, each intended to express the most harmonious, inventive, powerful and beautiful elements in U. S. life, each likewise dedicated to the improvement of business in its locality and each scheduled to open in 1939, are now a-building-one on Long Island's Flushing Meadows and the other on a sandy ("Treasure") island in San Francisco Bay. Last week, controversy put them both in the news...