Word: gores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wolf (Warner Bros.) spills more gore than Hollywood has seen in many a month. Its press agents claim that it is the only picture ever filmed in which every member of the cast has at least one fight. Before its 47 brawls were completed, they say, Chief Scar-Maker Carl Axzelle had to send out for extra help. By the time the film is finished, only two characters are still alive...
Their magnificent, subtly curved horns spread eight and nine feet tip to tip, and they were such sky-hardened athletes it was said you could pack all the roasting meat of any one of them into the hollow of one of those horns. A Longhorn bull was known to gore the life out of a grizzly; another scattered a U. S. regiment that had stood against Santa Anna. James Bowie used to ride amongst them, knifing them down...
...that Robert Graves likes modern war: his 1914-18 memoirs, Goodbye to All That (1929), were among the most disillusioned records any old soldier ever wrote. But Graves conceded that in an age of scarlet coats, flintlock muskets, brass cannon, war may have been fun, with more glory than gore...
...looks like a state capitol, and it was to stand alone in the center of the Yard, which was to have a fringe of buildings along the street on all four sides. University was erected in less pretentious form, and the grandoise "fringe" scheme was forgotten when the old Gore Hall Library and the old Appleton Chapel were put on sites now covered (and more) by Widener and the Memorial Church. All these were set like buildings in a park, embowered in fine old trees...
...present experiments that the network is making are confined entirely to Gore Hall in Winthrop House where the main transmitter has been set up. These tests should determine the actual arrangement of the wire hookups to the steel framework. The present plan is to make a complete circuit out of the building's frame and through use of shielded cable to eliminate the standing waves on the distribution lines and to minimize them on the building, thus cutting down on the air radiation which was the bugbear of last season's attempts...