Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...length of the training season, it, compares favorably with that of the other major sports. It extends from October to March, there being approximately 15 weeks of actual intercollegiate competition...
...situation. Film Daily's Chester B. Bahn put his finger on the real danger of Chicago's proposed action, hinted that the industry ought to purge itself lest "a municipality . . . tomorrow . . . may similarly attack the alternative feature & shorts program, and the day after by legislation decree the length of a feature itself." Motion Picture Herald's Martin Quigley, Johnny-one-note of the trade press, was plaintively sarcastic: "This industry is going to be fixed up fine," wrote he, "when all the experts get through -making it safe for babies, supplying adult education on the screen...
...brief, Sanforizing consists of heating and running a bolt of cloth over an elastic blanket, which contracts and pulls the moistened cloth back to proper length, and makes it stay that way. Cluett, Peabody has an exclusive patent on the process, not only uses it itself but collects royalties ranging from ¼ ?to 1? a yard from 63 U. S. cotton mills producing 60% of U. S. cotton goods. Last week Cluett, Peabody announced that cotton goods Sanforized in 1937 totaled 425,000,000 yds., against 352,000,000 in 1936, 238,000,000 in 1937. Royalties amounted...
...Walt Disney's first feature-length animated cartoon is (1 Brother Roy, 2 Charlie McCarthy, 3 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 4 Jack the Giant Killer, 5 Mary and Her Snow-White Lamb...
...conditions which affect the length of life in the lowly Daphnia carry over to man, and are reflected in human longevity, persons who lead very frugal lives until past middle age and then have generous living, may be expected to live longest. . . . People who have generous living until old age approaches and then have very frugal living or suffer real hardship, may be expected to have shorter lives...