Word: interruptible
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...reading period as in use at Harvard, but will in one way be in distinct advance of the system. A great part of the value of the Harvard reading period is lost for the reason that students enrolled in one or more courses in scientific or mathematical subjects must interrupt their mornings and afternoons of reading by attending classes and preparing work in those subjects. The Yale plan eliminates this disadvantage and, by permitting students in such courses to spend their time in doing reading in other fields, will enhance the general value of the reading period...
...present role in the mood that fits it, the mood of a decade ago. Sally Eilers and James Dunn have properly acquired the same frame of mind. Though the picture contains temporal contradictions-the moderne apartment of the hack-painter, the two-horse democrat in which Dunn goes to interrupt Mae Marsh's career at the Old Folks home-it should be popular again. It is a lachrymose anachronism, all the more touching perhaps because no one can believe it any more...
...noticed that Mr. Justice Holmes's shoulders were a little more stooped, that his step was a little more feeble, that he sat and rose with a little more difficulty. During this term Mr. Justice Holmes has been more silent, less smiling than usual. Rarely now does he interrupt an arguing attorney with a barbed question or a comment flashing with wit. He is, his eight friends on the bench now sadly agree, aging...
...ball (and got it back as a souvenir), watched the St. Louis Cardinals (National League) whip the Philadelphia Athletics (American League). Not till the game was over did he learn of the sudden death of Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow (see below), though thousands of radio listeners heard Graham McNamee interrupt his play by play description of the game to flash the news. Leaving Shibe Park, a bulletin was handed to President Hoover. Secretary Theodore Joslin spoke for him: "The President is greatly shocked. . . . He will enlarge on that statement when he returns to Washington." ¶ Prior to leaving...
...meant to fit. The string of hasty sequences with which the picture replaces the first volume of the novel fails to make Clyde Griffiths excitingly alive, "unless the spectator remembers the novel well enough to fill in the gaps. Titles, gloomily printed on a background of waves, interrupt the action more than they elucidate it. Phillips Holmes plays Clyde Griffiths in perfunctory fashion. He experiences every human emotion without varying his expression except by a toothy smile. At moments the picture transcends this and other handicaps and really comes to life. Walking with another girl, Roberta Alden passes Clyde Griffiths...