Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Interest in lacrosse has grown suddenly this year with a squad so large that only about half will be able to go on the spring trip in April...
...line drawing has the airy movement and harmony of a string quartet. This is not all it has. On a few square inches of white paper Blake could and did put forms comparable in grandeur to the frescoes of Michelangelo. Few if any exhibitions this season had more artistic interest than a comprehensive show of Blake which opened last week at the Philadelphia Museum...
Everyone takes it for granted that the sun will go on shining until he dies-and, as a matter of lesser interest, for a long time after he dies. Astrophysicists, who believe the solar star-stuff has been hot for billions of years and will be so for billions of years more, have long cudgeled their brains for a reason why. Most favored of recent theories is that hydrogen is the fuel. It is known that the sun does not "burn" hydrogen, in the sense of releasing stored chemical energy as from coal; it physically changes fragments of hydrogen atoms...
...dialectic. The play which gave the young actors their name was produced in an attempt to expose the causes for a condition that had long existed in all large American cities. Largely as a result of the play and its celluloid counterparts, welfare agencies have benefitted from increased public interest and support in the work of juvenile guidance...
...often that Hollywood can put as many as five interesting people together in a single movie. This is the accomplishment of "The Shining Hour," now at the University, and even better, these interesting characters rise above the limitations of a trite triangle plot and become real, credible characters. They are Joan Crawford, nightclub dancer, who marries Melvyn Douglas, a member of the rich, aristocratic family of Lindens. Robert Young, in the process of trying to prevent the marriage, falls in love with Miss Crawford himself, much to the distress of his wife, Margaret Sullavan, and his sister, Fay Bainter. Outstanding...