Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thus accept the fact that they hunt each other to the death are not to be expected to bury the hatchet except in each other's necks. Americans who talk coalition with the Communists sound to the Chinese a little like the late General Patton's unhappy comparison of the German Nazi v. anti-Nazi struggle with the rivalry between U.S. Democrats and Republicans...
...both characters and story were plainly hard to bring to full life on the screen. The story is about young Pip (John Mills), a blacksmith's apprentice, who in childhood befriends an escaped convict, Magwitch (Finlay Currie), and a rich, decaying recluse, Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt).When Pip is still a very young man, he is snatched from poverty into Great Expectations. Miss Havisham's subtle attorney Jaggers (F. L. Sullivan) holds a fortune in trust for him, the gift of an anonymous benefactor. Pip sets out for London to learn to be a gentleman. He shares lodgings...
...citation accompanying the medal did not disclose the precise nature of Professor Hunt's contribution, but stated that it concerned work on submarine and anti-submarine devices. Secrecy has been maintained, the citation explained, because the work is of "continuing importance to the security of the country...
Local speculation, however, liked the award with Professor Hunt's research as director of the University's now-defunct Underwater Sound Laboratory, for which he received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University in 1945. The eulogy with the degree said: "Originator and able chief of one of Harvard's large war laboratories; his ingenuity has served the Navy in its battles below the waves...
Professor Hunt, also chairman of the new Department of Engineering Science and Applied Physics, was in New York last night, attending an Acoustical Society meeting, when the Navy made its announcement, Previously, he had been in Washington en government business...