Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to his Summer School and Graduate School posts, Adams is dean of Special Students, Director of the University Extension, and Fulbright Scholarship adviser. No decisions on successors for any of Adams' five posts have yet been made...
Seven-hundred and sixty-five members of the employees union marched to the polls yesterday to affirm, 464 to 301, amendments to their by-laws and constitution that in effect elevate Mulvihill to salaried status and require his resignation as employee of the University...
...months Tongg's airline merely went through the motions, like a weary hula dancer. In 1948, it lost $148,427. Then, early this year, CAB gave Ruddy's Trans-Pacific Airlines a five-year certificate. This week, as T.P.A. advertised its first scheduled inter-island flights, to start next week, Tongg invited Hawaiians to "fly the Aloha...
Repetition, in fact, is Director Sturges' specialty. Some of his gags, even the most familiar ones, are run through the camera four or five times in rapid succession, giving the effect of a bad attack of hiccoughs, or a worn record turning in the same groove. To keep the gags rolling, he deploys a whole passel of comics, including Rudy Vallee, with pince-nez and purse-mouthed antics, Hugh Herbert as a butter-fingered doctor, and a couple of yowling hillbilly pinheads (Sterling Holloway and Danny Jackson). None of them is as funny as they were plainly meant...
...upstate New York, bowled over the nation's critics with his first novel, a precision-built tour de force called The Ox-Bow Incident. Its firm, restrained handling of the problem of good and evil arising from a mob lynching crowned Clark with the halo of great promise. Five years later came The City of Trembling Leaves, a long, rambling study of sensitive youth in Reno, Nev., which made readers wonder if Ox-Bow had not been an accident of perfection. His new novel will keep them wondering...