Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pucksters should encounter stiff competition in attempting to stretch its winning streak, since the Cambridge outfits lists Exeter, whom the Freshmen barely topped 6-5 last Wednesday, among its victims. Hodder will probably start his winning line combination of Captain Prentle Willets, Burton Cox, and Stacey Hulse, with Butt and Gray on defense. George Hanford will be in the nets...
...Numerous educators today are insisting that too many young people are going to college. President James Conant of Harvard, for instance, suggests the number be reduced and brought more in line with the annual demand for the services of college-trained men and women...
...students entertain the belief that there will be a reception line of prospective employers awaiting them with flattering offers of jobs on Commencement Day. They know that if they get any offer of a job at all, it likely will be of the blue-denim rather than of the white-collar variety. And they'll accept that blue-denim job in the hope that some day times may be better and their college training may help them to advance...
International Settlement (Twentieth Century-Fox) makes a bee line to the Far East to cash in on the publicity value of the daily Sino-Japanese headlines. More worthy of note than its short-order plot are: 1) its resourceful utilization of the newsreel shots of the Shanghai bombing (TIME, Sept. 13); 2) its hopeful experiment with doll-like, undistinguished June Lang (real name: Jane Vlasek) as a beautiful-but-dumb comedian; 3) its commanding hero, 6 ft.-3 in. George Sanders. Russian-born of British parents, Sanders made a great stir in his first Hollywood role, as the foppish Lord...
...invent improved methods of teaching adults to read. Chief advance over the system of Dr. Stella Center at New York University's reading clinic (TIME, Dec. 6), was the use of a motion picture film that flashes successive phrases on a screen, to guide the eyes along a line of type. In 15 one-hour lessons Dr. Buswell increased the reading ability of his adults 15%, was highly pleased...