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Word: frames (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasing contrast. Although vaguely reminiscent of the old Hal Roach comedies, it presents in a sprightly way the adventures of a playboy turned milkman (Allan Lane). The plot may be weak, but the lines and fine character portrayals of the whole cast leave the audience in an exuberant, happy frame of mind. Just to make the program absolutely earth-shattering, the management has thrown in les cinq Dionnes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

Their pre-publication office was a room in an ancient two-story frame house on Manhattan's East 18th Street. Between their desks stood a large iron kettle-about the size and shape used by African cannibals for the boiling of missionaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: ANNIVERSARY | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Last night's meeting of the Harvard Congress, if viewed in the light of the ovation given the Marquessa de Cienfuegos the night before, leaves the student of social progress in a rather glum frame of mind. For the Young Conservatives played to standing room only for a speech they had taken pains to label as publicity-seeking propaganda, whereas the Congress, meeting ostensiby to Advance and Perpetuate Learning, drew a crowd of fourteen by actual count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SINISTER TALE OF THE MARQUESSA AND THE FAITHFUL FOURTEEN | 2/25/1938 | See Source »

Occupants of Manhattan's Empire State Building, world's tallest structure, have quailed many times at a brilliant bolt of lightning accompanied by an immediate clap of thunder. Many of them have not realized that the building itself is often struck, that since the steel frame of a big building acts as a lightning rod, carrying off the charge, its occupants are well protected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light on Lightning | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

After a wild scramble in front of the net at the end of the second frame, Joe Patrick jabbed the other Harvard score into the net. Previously Queens had scored twice, and the period ended with the Canadians out in front...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoopmen Win Thriller From Cornell As Sextet Loses | 2/19/1938 | See Source »

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