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...earn its reputation as a strong union town, Seattle ran a grim gamut of labor trouble, from a bitter citywide general strike (1919) to bloody waterfront wars (1934). Last week a strike made news which the newspapers could not report...
From the time he entered the Kozlany village school through his Gymnasium and university years in Prague and Paris, Benes was a dervish for study. At 16, the once pious Catholic boy had turned into an unkempt dogmatist. By the time he was 19, he had run the gamut of the philosophies of extremism, from Sorelian violence to Marxian materialism. Then he encountered Thomas Masaryk...
...Chinese first compiled a glossary of 219 ideographical combinations to cover the abstract words of San Francisco, running the gamut of international cooperation, from ad hoc to Yalta. By last week the glossary had tripled in size...
...role best calculated to squeeze the sobs is that of the slavey; and talented Dorothy McGuire runs the whole gamut. If she looks even lovelier, at moments, as the slavey's bluntfaced self-rather like Maude Adams, in fact-than as Robert Young's extensive improvement on the original, that is only because a gentle soul shines brighter than anything the Max Factory can contrive. Robert Young, as the disfigured veteran, combines his genuine manliness and sympathy with stylized sentimentality in perfect proportions; and Makeup Artist Maurice Stedman helps him give his uglier moments a pathos at once...
...mood control keyboard" which will influence the frame of mind of everyone in the kitchen. "Has dangerous possibilities: keyboard can run gamut of emotions up to complete hypnosis...