Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stressing the point that his listeners had been here longer than he himself, Professor Westergaard talked briefly on Harvard's advantages for the student, as well as discussing present and projected research in the Engineering School...
...benefits both from the advanced nature of the material, and an expert and inspiring lecturer. The laboratory work in run on a rather hypocritical basis, however. The students are judged on what they have accomplished in a required six hours a week, and while many of them take considerably longer, fall to say so far fear of being considered slow...
...chief cause for worry, bring to light her virtual isolation. To this "miracle" more than any other is due the unique individuality which exists in that small country. To this are owed the great achievements along literary and along imperialistic lines. It is today, when Britain is no longer an isolated country, that the test of her greatness and her powers of protection will be called into play...
...action follows the book very closely; there is a longer introduction before you actually get out on the water, for it takes Hollywood longer than it took Kipling to create the character of rich, spoiled Harvey; but from then on it is all Kipling and the characters portray the gripping tale with the greatest acting you are likely to see on the screen this year--Harvey, Manuel, Captain Disko (Lionel Barrymore), Long Jack. Perhaps the only sour note is the millionaire, Harvey's soupy father, played by Melvyn Douglas; it is doubtful if he is just what Kipling meant...
...best transport pilot in the U. S." Last summer Dick Merrill flew Crooner Harry Richman to England, was forced down in Wales (TIME, Sept. 14). On the return trip he cracked up in Newfoundland, got embroiled in a tawdry, name-calling squabble with Richman, to whom he no longer speaks (TIME, Sept. 28). Back on his regular run for Eastern Air Lines, Dick Merrill next made news by wrapping his ship around a mountain, miraculously without injury to his eight passengers (TIME, Dec. 28 et seq.). Last week. Pilot Merrill finally got into the headlines with news of a more...