Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heels." When Secretary Moe lights on a likely applicant, he interviews him, tries to find out how much Guggenheim money he will need, what he wants to do with it. After that the fellow is free as air, may go anywhere he likes, spend his stipend as he sees fit...
While it was about it, the Federal Reserve Board also slapped the same margin requirements on banks, which have hitherto been free to loan as much on stocks as they saw fit. From his broker a customer could borrow only 45% of the value of his stocks, but from his banker he could borrow possibly 75%. The Reserve Board took great pains to confine its bank margin rules solely to speculative borrowing. If his bank will accommodate him, a man can still pledge his stocks for, say, 70% of their value to buy a farm or build a house. Said...
...play made the perturbation of the Hays organization look as silly as it made Producer Goldwyn look shrewd. In the screen version the rumor charges one of the teachers with normal rather than abnormal misbehavior. This trivial change strengthens rather than weakens the story, makes it entirely fit for the consumption of all cinemaddicts with the most rudimentary knowledge of the facts of life. Brilliantly directed by William Wyler and acted by an admirable cast, These Three remains on the screen what The Children's Hour is on the stage-a calmly bloodcurdling investigation of what several honorable adults...
...precipitated by a celebration held in the laboratory by certain workers not long ago. An imposing frozen pudding had been ordered for the occasion and placed in the refrigerating room. A Senior had seen fit to keep a bottle of ether in that same room...
...world - the 200-in. telescope mirror destined for California Institute of Technology, 3,000 miles away. For nearly a year, since it was formed of molten pyrex borosilicate glass, the great disk had cooled slowly in its annealing oven. In the testing plant it had been pronounced fit for its job. 'Now it was ready for shipment. It weighed 20 tons, its complicated packing case 15 tons more. The trailer which brought it to the rail spur had taken 30 hours to move a quarter-mile...