Word: heightens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt seemed to indicate that such an enlargement of the facilities of the College would be warranted. But is there any assurance that the number of applicants will continue to grow, or will even hold the ground gained last year over any length of time? The factors which heighten the popularity of a college in the minds of preparatory school students are not easy to determine. At Harvard the publicity attendant upon the institution of the House Plan, the superior financial position in time of depression, and the success of many of the athletic teams in recent years...
...wherein a large portion of the action takes place. The walls are made of veneer panelling, while the set itself is an accurate reproduction made from pictures obtained in London of an English courtroom. The aim in its construction is for realism; the purpose of which being to heighten the dramatic effect...
...executed in the same monotone. Only in the lupine eye of Vanzetti, and the good natured face of Governor Fuller does the artist reveal Life triumphant over Obsession. Such phases as the family of the condemned man as they were in Italy, and after the verdict had been pronounced heighten the scientific interest...
Professor F. B. Crawford, of the Physics Department, denied that the presence of water in the small room would heighten the melodic effect, but stated that hard walls acted as excellent resonators and in this way tended to increase the total effect of sound. He further added that, with the exception of wartime, the only occasion when Englishmen abandoned their traditional reserve was in the bath...
...cock-fighting, sword-thrusting, chin-chucking days are gone never to return. A hard-breathed "gadsblood" man will never heighten the tension of mortal conflict more. Beroic gestures are out of fashion and with them have gone the verbal trappings which were one of the chief compensations for the inadequate plumbing fixtures of the middle ages. The radio and the movie have finished the levelling process of democracy. The human sea of derbied heads stretches out far into the middle west with no crown or crested helm to arrest the eye. Can all romance have gone forever? In his soul...