Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...architect, John L. Kingston of Warren & Whetmore, started with the idea of a good sized building constructed, theoretically, high up in the air. Then he planned downward to the street level, spreading lower stories to get the "setback" effect which gives tall buildings the maximum of light...
...long been obvious but seldom analyzed. Last week a journalist named Francis Wallace published some figures in The Saturday Evening Post. He showed that football's drawing power is about $50,000,000 a year, that some colleges make half a million out of their teams because they "get raw material, exploitation, and labor at slight cost. The schedule makers are planning five years ahead, signing contracts for attractive intersectional games, based no longer on natural rivalry or academic interest as has been the norm, but upon filling the stadium. Alumni, considering themselves stockholders, help to build the stadia...
...Hard to Get (First National). Although this mild anecdote about a mannequin who tries to see life as her customers see it has been told before in various forms, it has been directed lightly enough to avoid being offensive and even at times to be funny. When a handsome fellow in a long shiny car picks up Dorothy Mackaill she tells him she lives on Fifth Avenue and gives him the number of a house that as inevitably happens in these cases turns out to be his own. Hard to Get does not rise to any heights of originality...
...know. His instruments go "hay wire." He is helpless. In terror he may try to guide himself. Generally that is useless. Experienced professional pilots, particularly on the night mail routes, often set their planes at neutral, take their hands off the controls, fold their arms and apathetically wait to get out of the fog, or to crash...
...series of hard games which concludes, the schedule, was not in evidence. Intensive drill alone can weld this Harvard machine into a well-coordinated unit capable of realizing its full strength. Only occasionally did the eleven click efficiently and only then could those who saw the clash get an idea of the promise which the aggregation holds for the future...