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Word: maining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene is a movie screen. After several flashes of main titles, names of producers, photographers, men who record, direct, edit, there is heard the mellifluous voice of an unseen commentator. A slow fade-in on a bathroom--small, title less, and complete. Five little tots pile into the foreground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/11/1937 | See Source »

...essays should not exceed 2000 words in length, and should be in the main a readable narrative covering the high spots of the season. Factual data containing complete summaries of all events must also accompany the article...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO WEEKS REMAIN TO ENTER ESSAY CONTEST | 5/11/1937 | See Source »

...three floors, was the sheer bulk of artistic material retrieved from the depths of the human past. Yet the Museum's exhibition was only a fractional facsimile of the 3,500 items in the Frobenius Collection at the Institute for the Study of the Morphology of Civilization, Frankfurtam-Main, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dawn Pictures | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...parked in Louisville railroad yards, roofs and beds in the city are always fabulously scarce. This year Louisville's Derby Festival Committee rounded up accommodations for 20,000 Derby refugees, in everything from $1 rooms to 12-room houses at $1,000 for the weekend. At Churchill Downs, main refuge during the flood which did it $8,000 damage, renovations this year include 3,000 new seats, 150 new boxes. With 70,000 paid spectators and 5,000 admitted free in the infield, the crowd should equal the biggest in Derby history. If, as anticipated, 24 horses should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 63rd Derby | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...close of the academic year approaches, the University might well begin plans for ameliorating conditions in the Department of Music. While the faculty in music is one of the finest gathered under any one roof, its potentialities are seriously hampered by an ominous shortage of funds. From this main and crippling evil arise numerous and sundry irregularities making the teaching of music at Harvard laboured and uncertain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RENOVATION FOR THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT | 5/7/1937 | See Source »

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