Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some extent these intentions remain clear and powerful. But a good deal of the power has been lost, as with grounded wires. In spite of Jack Warner's promise that nothing important would be cut, the strongest and thematically most necessary speeches in the play were lopped out after Huston had finished and left town. "Why, goddamit," Huston shouted when he learned of it, "they cut the very gizzard out of it!" Key Largo is Huston's last picture for Warner Bros...
...burdened with unexciting, almost identical titles (Pastors and Masters, Daughters and Sons, Men and Wives, Parents and Children, etc.). All are about the same thing-a family struggling under the rule of one or more domestic tyrants. All consist of conversation to the extent that a watermelon consists of water-conversation in which satire and terrifying realism are couched and half-concealed in a difficult, dead-pan prose...
...Atlanta, the Southern Presbyterians debated a proposal to withdraw from the Federal Council of Churches. This resolution (supported to a considerable extent by textile industrialists who are not happy about the Federal Council's liberal labor policies) was defeated in a poll of Southern presbyteries during the year by a vote of 62 to 23. New Moderator of the Southern Presbyterians is the Rev. Charles Darby Fulton, 55, onetime missionary to Japan and secretary of his church's Committee of Foreign Missions since...
...lost to three EIL teams that also have beaten the Crimson this year, but the Ithacans have gotten their lumps much more spectacularly. Dartmouth, Army, and Navy have whipped Cornell 14-5, 12-0, and 12-2 respectively, while the home forces have extended the same opposition to the extent...
That Harvard's "tolerance of exceptionality and eccentricity" still exists as an integral part of the disunity of the College's organization is undoubtedly true; to this extent, individualism is highly desirable. But the Harvard College of 1948 is substantially different from the Harvard College of the 1900's; the growth both in the size of the curriculum and the size of the student body has created evils within the traditional laissez-faire of the College...