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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is sly humor in Prissy 's (Butterfly McQueen) singing of Jes' a Few Mo' Days, Ter Tote de Weery Load. There is -sumptuous satire in the sets of the barbaric mansion, the realization of all Scarlett's ideals, in which Rhett and Scar lett enshrine their garish passion. In contrast, sudden lyrical shots lighten the cinemagnificence. Technicolor (using a new process) has never been used with more effective restraint than in Gone With the Wind. Exquisite shot: Gerald O'Hara silhouetted beside Scarlett against the eve ning sky at Tara while he propounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Included in awards in Varsity football were 22 men who were given major letters. Captain Mecdonald received the "H" for the third time it was the second time for Coleman. Hs: lett. Rosley. Lowry and Gardella Minor letters were given to 18 Varsity men and 81 Junior Varsity men. 88 Freshmen received numerals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 176 Awards Given For Fall Athletics | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

...line Party members well know Charles Dirba, a blue-eyed, stoop-shouldered, middle-aged Lett, conscientious, able, hard-working who for years has run the Communist Control Commission that passes on expulsions from the Party. When one comrade wishes to denounce another comrade, he writes out his charges, sends them to Comrade Dirba. Comrades may denounce each other as police spies, wreckers, Trotskyites, Lovestoneites, grafters, stool pigeons, for spreading stories about the central committee, for social fascism, for individualism, for anti-Party tendencies, for rotten liberalism, rotten intellectualism, conciliationism, for having personal relations with Trotskyites, for white chauvinism, for Zionism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Dies | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Lett is able to reconcile these two factors, he will have made a momentous check on the existing formulas, which are so vitally important commercially in oil prospecting and scientifically in interpreting surface layers of earth from local New England earthquakes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Assistant Professor of Geology, Lett, To Experiment in 6000 Ft. Oil Well | 12/3/1937 | See Source »

...Lett's experiments on the seismic method of determining will thus involve two fundamental geologic principles. In the first place he will use as a basis the recording of earthquake waves, which give information on depths of the earth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Assistant Professor of Geology, Lett, To Experiment in 6000 Ft. Oil Well | 12/3/1937 | See Source »

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