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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...educational possibilities of the movies are enormous," he said. "Movies are exceedingly practicable in schools and colleges, for they furnish a means of instruction which does not the the student. The modern era is one of rapidity, and the cinema supplies instruction which conforms to the spirit of the times. Movies will be supplemented by books; books will be illustrated by movies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twentieth Century is Age of Cinema Declares League of Nations Expert--Dr. de Feo Inspects Film Foundation | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

Though beaten by Dartmouth last Saturday, the Crimson outfit displayed much shooting and passing skill against the Lowell Textile aggregation on Monday night. The Aggies should furnish good opposition, however, for they held Dartmouth to a much lower score than did the University five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUINTET CLASHES WITH M.A.C. BASKETBALL TEAM | 2/13/1929 | See Source »

...LIFE, particularly in his earlier years, which may contain matter of historical or personal interest, will send to her such letters or send her brief descriptive statements of such incidents. Communications should be addressed to her personally at Bemersyde, St. Boswells, Scotland. Letters and statements are required to furnish material for the official life of the Field-Marshal which will be written at some future time. All letters will be carefully preserved and copied and the originals returned to senders with the least possible delay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: England's Agony | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...shake their heads over such cushy concessions to landsmen as wicker chairs, percolators, automobile steering wheels. Yet motor boat makers well retorted that the motor boat is a pleasure craft, that a large proportion of its buyers are looking chiefly for a seagoing automobile, that it is women who furnish the chief sales resistance and for whose sake galleys, for example, are sometimes described as "kitchenettes." It is with the amateur sailor that the future of the motor boat lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motor Boats | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...undertaken. The mere fact that a vote is being taken in the matter has already reduced the possibilities of its successful outcome. Juniors are beginning to conceive of a Prom, which, due to lack of financial support, will gather them in a cold hall and furnish them with bad music; perhaps they will starve to death before the clock strikes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Proposed Solution | 1/25/1929 | See Source »

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