Word: graphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expresses his theory mathematically on a graph: the product of X (frequency) times Y (conspicuousness) is some constant N. "We might fill in X and Y with their actual values," he says, "and solve the equation for N: we should undoubtedly find N a number varying infinitesimally from person to person, slightly from dialect to dialect, distinctly from culture to culture, and vastly between the languages of primitive and civilized men. In fact, I believe that an understanding of N will ultimately lead to an understanding of that stuff called Life...
...this picture was first planned. Florenz Ziegfeld was going to direct it himself. Then it was rumored that Erich von Stroheim had the job. Now J. P. McEvoy and Director Millard Webb have done the story and Irving Berlin, with three others, the music. It is a dull, shaky graph of a department store employe's rise to theatrical fame. Mary Eaton's pretty legs support a corner of the plot, which sags whenever legs are not enough. Rudy Vallée and a technicolor ballet have been worked in for specialties. Best shot: Eddie Cantor...
...descending graph of lynchings indicates their disappearance in 20 years. Lynchings for 1929 were one less than for 1928, six less than for 1927, nine less than for 1926. Score by States: Florida, 4; Texas, 3; Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, 1 each. For the last 40-year lynching period, Georgia leads with 434 Negroes killed by mobs. Mississippi is next with 409, Louisiana third with...