Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rarely do super productions turn out to be great pictures, and "If I Had a Million," currently showing at the University, is no exception. But while most productions which boast a "galaxy of stars" fail through conflicts of acting, this one lacks anything which might approach unity of direction. The superb cast of directors, headed by Ernst Lubitsch, Paramount's ace, leaves the minds of their audience much the same feeling as that created by the architecture of Adams House: a meaningless hodge-podge of more or less attractive pieces...
...choose cheaper or even charity hospitals. Besides this, the hospital delivery has great advantages over the delivery in the private home; better equipment, experienced assistants, and immediate help in case of emergency. Therefore, even if considered desirable, an attempt to stem the flow of patients to the maternities would fail, and, realizing the dangers lurking in hospitals, we should do everything to improve conditions of the institutional delivery, so that it will turn out to be safer than home delivery. ..." ¶ "To be able to make such improvements we must first determine what is wrong with the hospital delivery...
...worse-to have some grade put upon their every attempt at a separate work. I feel that great progress could be made if in all second year or higher courses, first formal November and April grading was eliminated and second final grades were returned as good pass or fail. (It seems that the use of grades in judging scholarship awards is not sufficient for the intellectual outlook which such emphasis on them causes in general. There may be other justification for such detailed grading-I don't know...
...Year-hunter could hardly fail to spot John Davison Rockefeller Jr. as Builder of the Year with Rockefeller Center...
...story of Governor Roosevelt's rise to be Man of the Year and 32nd President of the U. S. is fresh in mind. Future historians describing it as a feat of political mountain-climbing will not fail to mention...