Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original sin was omission-failure to tell what kind of man he was, to treat him with the customary cynicism with which it keeps public characters in perspective. Instead the press succumbed to mob psychology, augmenting it beyond belief. In Lindbergh's mind, however, the press became something far worse: a personification of malice, which deliberately urged on the crazy mob and printed lying stories about...
...exodus" this year was in part a result of the fact that since many of the permanent appointments in the Department are held by comparatively young men, openings for promotion into the permanent ranks will be few and far between in coming years...
...Far behind teaching come the sciences, with chemistry on top with 32, engineering with 27, geology 9, and anthropology and archaeology three apiece...
...hired twelve men, varying from cross-eyed to farsighted, issued them muskets with blank cartridges, marched them out to Bunker Hill, reconstructed the Revolutionary battle, to prove that Captain William Prescott could not have shouted: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" Result : the far-sighted men opened fire at 75 feet, the normal-visioned at 50, the near-sighted never fired at all, were presumably "skewered on enemy bayonets.'" Explained Moran: "I'm doing this because I like to have...
...Far better than any guide-book to the American dance is the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers pictorial view of fox trots, rhumbas, slides and glides in the "Story of Vernon and Irene Castle." Unfortunately, the picture offers little else. During Vernon's early slapstick days--his barber shop scene with Lew Fields, his gaudy, striped coats that are liable to start a national trend, his old-fashioned romance with Irene Foote--the picture proceeds at a light and entertaining pace. The mood of pre-war gaiety and Sunday excursions to the beach at New Rochelle is, made delightfully real...