Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be in not only for new records but also for a new era: "Steel is no longer a standardized commodity like sugar, wheat or coal. We have entered into the age of specialized steels. In the future all steels are going to be tailormade . . . manufactured to order to fit the particular job for which it is designed. The outstanding achievement of the industry in this direction has been the development and perfection of a whole series of alloy steels?each alloy having its own particular properties and uses...
...motherly, soft-spoken Mrs. Wiggs, Pauline Lord makes a promising debut into talking pictures, and she will no doubt fit well into the Marie Dressler type of role. The Wiggs children speak with similar accents, do not look at the camera, and are quite charming. True love is wholesomely portrayed by the winsome Evelyn Venable and Kent Taylor, who appeared together in David Harum. The affection of the pompous Mr. Stubbins (W. C. Fields) for Miss Bazy (Zazu Pitts) may be placed on a somewhat lower level, for Mr. Stubbins has to be lured toward the altar by the combined...
...Harvard team during the first half and were just as disappointed by the let-down in the two final periods. What was the trouble? you ask. Why should the Crimson eleven be powerful enough to score in the first few minutes and then subside into a brand of football fit only for the sandlots...
...lectures are voluntarily contributed by the instructors. They have expressed the opinion that from the point of view of the material involved the lectures will have a double value. First, they will make available to students research that would ordinarily not fit into any course structure and would therefore not ordinarily be at their disposal until the work had been put into book form. Secondly, the lectures will be valuable as a testing ground for the opinions and theories developed under the isolated conditions of private research...
...Bulletin has not assumed a tenable position. While it evidently agrees with the statement of President Conant in the abstract, it is afraid to apply it in a given situation. Not only has the Bulletin seen fit to neglect the possible truth in these statements but it has also pussy-footed on the question of the right to criticize. If the Bulletin felt we did not possess the right and said so, their stand is comprehensible. To meet the issue on the minor questions of adjectives and courtesy, however, shows a failure to grasp our purpose. We would have welcomed...