Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While New York Police Commissioner Valentine sent a special detective to investigate the charge against Detective Broderick, and Navy Yard officials announced calmly that they knew they had Communists among their 9,300 workmen, but watched them carefully, main interest in the Communist Party centred on Comrade Malkin's denunciation of Comrade Charles Dirba...
...Eastern Shore oystermen, fishermen, farmers, who track the muck of river bottoms into her dim-lit office on the town's main street, she is "Miss Mollie." Some of them can remember when Miss Mollie used to give them candy in an envelope if there was no mail for them. In a town renowned for apocryphal anecdote, dignified little Miss Mollie has the rare distinction of figuring in none...
...interest is the fact that Coach George Munger has brought his two top assistants with him. Usually at least one of the main mentors is scouting future, opponents each Saturday. However, Munger realizes that Howdy Odell and Rae Crowther, who formerly taught under Harlow, will be indispensable in checking the Harvard offense...
...film "They Shall Have Music" seems to have hit at last on the right formula for putting a great man of music on the screen. The solution: putting him on the screen. Heifetz and more Heifetz, superbly recorded, is the main element of this film; all others are kept subordinate. And yet, the theme of a children's music school struggling to get along, though it sounds impossible, provides a moderately interesting plot. It also affords the chance to show off some truly remarkable child musicians and singers, of a breed quite distinct from Shirley Temple. A lad with...
...given periodically to check on the progress of the class. The number of words read per minute is computed and graphed for each student as well as the daily average for the class. Selections of increasing difficulty of thought are offered the student to teach him to grasp the main idea and central thought of any passage...