Word: intently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there been since, any division of the faculty along sectional lines. There has never been an organized group of the faculty known as the "Damyankees." TIME is here adding another legend to the already voluminous apocrypha of Chapel Hill. Of course the epithet "Damyankee" is occasionally applied with facetious intent to one or another of the faculty, both by Northerners and by Southerners, but the idea of forming an organization along these lines excites mirth...
...plane traversed northern Africa, crashed into the 11,000-ft. Atlas Mountains, killed both its pilots. Successive attempts also failed. Under Sir Samuel Hoare and the late Lord Thomson, the Air Ministry kept at the project, less intent upon hanging up a distance record than upon a demonstration of wings-across-the-Empire...
...which deals with the individual's reactions, an integration of the first two approaches mentioned above is essential. Without the livening injection of aesthetic values the student concentrating merely on style development, degenerates into an animated almanac of precise and inconsequential facts; without the control of style, the aesthete intent on whetting his own sensibilities sinks into a condition of hazy introversion, characterized by flowing hair and a precieux smirk. In order that students may derive the greatest possible benefit from the objective view, the Fine Arts Department might look with profit to the example of History and Literature...
...week Publisher Delacorte whipped out a new weekly called Manhattan, an about-town review and amusement guide (price 10?) aimed at the mass of subway riders who read Broadway colyumists but not the smart New Yorker. Some of its features, dealing with expensive speakeasies and night clubs, indicate an intent to show Manhattan's probable clientele how the upper crust amuses itself...
...accordance with its policy of producing plays that have never been introduced in the country previously, last night's performance in the Pi Eta theatre was the American premiere of "Circumstantial Evidence." There are few continental plays that escape the eagle eye of American producers intent on box office receipts, but there are many manuscripts on the market containing good drama that is more suited to amateur production. The club's selection is a happy one, for students cannot accuse it on the grounds that it is too artistic, a censure that has been occasionally justified in the past...