Word: faste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Columbia has been coming fast at the end of the schedule, and the 50 to 45 win which Captain Tom Macioce's boys registered over the Big Green last night was no fluke. They were touted as title contenders at the start of the season, and their strong finish has justified this prediction...
Alfred Hitchcock's prize winning film "The Lady Vanishes" now at the University is a light, fast-moving, neatly constructed adventure mystery. It is not surprising that there has been a great deal of attention paid to the directing of the picture; the dramatic course of events dominates every other aspect of the picture. Having taken some time to set the stage, Mr. Hitchcock then builds up the story to a high peak of action and suspense from which it never drops till the very end. The characters, passengers on a continental train, are carefully molded to fit the plot...
Only in the peculiar internal political structure of Poland is it possible today for such a coldblooded, unscrupulous, calculating diplomat as Colonel Beck to get away with his fast & loose international dealings. Even in modern dictatorships a Führer or a Duce must sell his people on accepting his judgments on foreign relations. In a democracy a Foreign Minister is at the political mercy of public opinion. But in Poland Colonel Beck is under neither handicap and the reason is that Poland is neither a dictatorship nor a democracy...
Celotex came back fast. This time President Dahlberg's Napoleonic ambitions were put to more constructive use-diversifying Celotex's products to give it a general line of building materials. It made $736,000 in 1936, $1,267,000 in 1937. This is still cottage size next to the manorial 1937 profits of its two biggest competitors, Johns-Manville Corp ($5,450,000) and U. S. Gypsum...
SOME DAY I'LL KILL You-Dana Chambers-Dial ($2). Murder and mayhem in the Connecticut countryside. Fast and witty, despite the somewhat Flash Gordon plot...