Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of an almost supercilious attitude on the part of many critics and actors, the motion picture has been firmly entrenching itself as a form of actual drama. It is true that the artistic development has in many instances fallen behind the technical growth of this industry but aside from the great mass of so called popular films there are Reveal organizations that are actually attempting to synchronize the latest mechanical advances with progressive artistic interpretation. The fact that the recent lectures of S. M. Eisenstein, the leading exponent of advanced films, are receiving such close and intelligent observation...
Although this building, since its construction in 1858, has been a gymnasium, the Germanic Museum, a paint shop and a Naval Science class room, it has each time become inadequate. Its last mission will be to help along the growth of dramatics at Harvard. The decision has not yet been reached as to whether the building will be used for the presentation of plays or the concentration of the various departments of the School, including the offices and the workshop for stage scenery construction. In either case the City's generous act marks a definite step forward in the development...
...School students. The first is a course entitled "The History of the Thirteen Colonies to 1760," given by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University. This course will provide a survey of American colonial history, with particular reference to the founding of the colonies, the growth of civilization, the British colonial system, political development, and the struggle for the continent...
Next Capone heard the Dade County grand jury refer to him as follows: "We endorse, commend and urge all legitimate efforts to exterminate from this community . . . a cancerous growth. The efforts of State's Attorney Hawthorne toward what is nationally recognized as a menace, a public impostor and an enemy to organized government are of paramount importance. . . . We urge all law-abiding citizens to give their unstinted cooperation to the end that 'Scarface Al' Capone, his accomplices and their sinister influences shall not continue to be inflicted upon . . . Florida...
Frederick Simonds Hammett, Philadelphia biochemist who has studied tissue growth for eleven years, decided after experiments on more than a million nuclei of tissue cells that a sulphur compound was directly responsible for tissue growth, that another sulphur compound was responsible for stagnation of tissue growth which comes with old age. His principle is universal, holds in the vegetable as well as in the animal kingdom...