Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stress in the competition will lie not only on excellence of photographic technique, but also on the ability to realize what makes a picture newsworthy. Work may be done with the cameras owned by the CRIMSON, but in some cases, particularly where candid work is involved, candidates familiar with their own cameras and miniature technique are urged to use their own apparatus...
Opening night was the most brilliant on record. The crowd of 15,000 that packed Madison Square Garden crackled with applause when a severe, vaguely familiar-looking man in a tail coat came out into the ring to receive the salute of 26 of the world's ablest cavalry officers, picked from Canada, Chile, France, Great Britain, the Irish Free State, Sweden and the U. S. He was General John Joseph Pershing. Most popular event of the evening was the performance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. More spectacular than in fiction or cinema, a troop...
Against scenery by Sergei Soudeikine which looks vaguely edible, Forbidden Melody unfolds a tangled tale of intrigue and counter-intrigue revolving about the return of King Carol of Rumania to his throne. No one impersonating buck-toothed Carol appears, however, and there is no trace of his red-headed familiar, Magda Lupescu. Sample gag: "Will you pardon me?" "Why certainly-what have you done...
Other finds included a foot-high statuet of ivory, first Greek copy ever found of the Apollo Lykeos; the bronze shield of Brasidas, captured at the Battle of Pylos in 425 B.C.; and a statue base bearing the epigram of Simonides, familiar to many a schoolboy: A marvelous great light shone for the Athenians when Harmodios and Aristogeiton slew Hipparchus...
Anthony Grzebyk is the biggest man in the Plymouth automobile plant in Detroit. He stands 6 ft. 4½in., weighs 300 lb., measures 48 in. around the waist. His towering bulk, his stolid face are familiar to nearly every worker under the 22 acres of Plymouth roof. He works on the assembly line in the evening shift, arriving a half-hour early just as the day shift is quitting at 3:30 p. m. To day shift and to evening shift he is known simply as "Big Tony...