Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest is the fact that Coach George Munger has brought his two top assistants with him. Usually at least one of the main mentors is scouting future, opponents each Saturday. However, Munger realizes that Howdy Odell and Rae Crowther, who formerly taught under Harlow, will be indispensable in checking the Harvard offense...
...look to its intellectual and spiritual leaders for moderating counsel to support, not destroy the neutral temper of a great nation, bent on staying at peace. We are inclined to agree with the Crimson that there have been notable failures in this respect. . . . We believe that the direct interest of the undergraduates makes them equal in importance as a pressure group to their teachers, for all their prestige. Boston Transcript...
...School officials wish to emphasize that these lectures are not intended as more summaries of or supplements to the routine instruction of the School. The subject-matter has been so designed so as to have broad interest and value for the legal profession and the public...
...torrent. But as the film works out, it tells of a rollicking freshet that grew into a sprawling, limpid river. To apostles of "progress" in the movie industry, this picture is indeed discouraging, for as it progresses from its first sequences of riotous cinematic primitivism it steadily loses audience interest...
Capitalizing on recent interest in movie history, 20th Century Fox has delved back into the files and brought out two scenes of slap-stick that make modern movie comedy look like a first-class funeral. The first includes Buster Keaton, Alice Faye, an unnamed villain, and an apparently limitless supply of creamy custard pies. There is a certain emotional release about a custard pie flying through the air destined for some carefully made-up face. It is a shame that the idea has been abandoned, for many modern pictures might be livened up immeasurably with the sudden appearance...