Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Club of Boston has announced elaborate plans for the afternoon. Following the traditional buffet luncheon, member and their gentlemen guests will follow the play-by-play over television in "Harvard Hall," the main dining room, with possible celebrations afterwards...
...main difference between the Captain Midnight and Superman shows is that the Captain can't "leap tall buildings at a single bound," or perform any of Superman's other specialties. His scope of activities is thereby diminished, along with the quality of his antagonists. The villains may still be mad geniuses, but they don't pitch planets around. Some of them do threaten mankind, although on a lesser scale, of course...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 16--Horman Hickman sent his charges through a rugged 60-minute scrimmage this afternoon in preparation for the Harvard tussle Saturday. Hickman's main problem is to get the Elis "up" for the big game after their heart-breaking loss to Princeton...
...many years, several public-spirited organizations have been trying to save American kiddies from the insidious influences of comic books, gangster movies, and radio thriller serials. The main attack has centered on the funnies and films, because radio is sexless, and therefore harder to get a generally tolerant public excited about. But the kiddy serials are nevertheless riddled with the same sort of grotesque materials that parents and teachers regard with horror in other mediums. And they are just as fascinating...
Disregarding cowboy and private detective categories, kiddy programs split up roughly into two main groups: the superman variety, where the more imaginative episodes display a complete absence of reality; the non-super but decidedly All-American type, ranging from Jack Armstrong to Spy King, with plots that are basically conceivable...