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...flat, and the first real rug on the floor, to the amazement of both company and audience, and started preaching the jehad of Realism. His ideal was to show everything on the stage, to leave nothing to the imagination. His disciple was David Belasco, who gave tremendous impetus to the movement and at one time put a complete Child's restaurant on the stage. Belasco in turn handed it on to his pupil who taught it to the motion pictures. This man is still with us, and when last seen was engaged in giving the American public a whole wrecked...
...late second period, the deluge broke. Halfback Thayer Drake tallied on a free throw to set the Crimson in the lead 1-0 and start the impetus that rolled up the efforts of the Clark defenses in three other blasts. Taking time out at half-time, the Varsity returned to the field and lost no time in denting the Clark nets. Eli Berman, stellar wing, took a pass from Jim Apthorp and rifled a shot past the goalie to put the Crimson in the lead...
...students the discussion of such problems, while not detracting in any way from the war effort, gives an added impetus to that effort, gives an added impetus to that effort through presenting positive aims for which to fight. Certainly to those who have the privilege of studying in these times, there belongs the responsibility for seeking an understanding of the causes of this war. Nor is discussion alone sufficient, for to wait until the war is won to make the public aware of the necessity of international co-operation would be as disastrous as the experience of the last...
Most of the shots were made by Russian cameramen accompanying the Soviet troops who pushed the Germans away from Moscow last winter. Their work makes a bitter, revealing, angry document. It shows, where words fail, the enormous physical impetus required to get a military offensive going in the paralyzing cold of the Russian winter. It also shows, by acres of matériel that the retreating Germans left behind, that their withdrawal was by no means strategic...
Under the impetus of the new pledge drive by the War Service Committee the Harvard undergraduate goal has been set at a minimum of $1000 each week. Other colleges such as Yale, with comparable enrollments and student allowances, have consistently topped that sum and are continuing to do so. But even these standards are startlingly modest when balanced against the contributions of the millions of wage-earning "ten percenters...