Word: making
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they stood facing it and as if embracing it with their hands pinioned together. The straps that bound them would be pulled so tight that they could barely move. Guards would now 'play merry-go-round' with them. That is, they would force them to make their way round and round the tree. If they could not move quickly enough it was usual to help them by kicking their ankles...
Naturally a swarm of newshawks, callous to the delicate distinctions of science, bore down on Dr. Pincus to find out how soon mammalian parthenogenesis could be applied to humans. The scientist dodged these embarrassing queries. A spokesman for him huffed: "Dr. Pincus' work will make possible certain manipulations and experiments which will aid in the study of cellular and biological growth. It is ridiculous to even think that such work could be done with human beings. This work will in no way affect the manner of living or customs...
...thurifer, the sweet smoke of incense coiled heavily into the church. In a chasuble of blue and gold, the church's Pastor Arthur Carl Piepkorn stood at the epistle side of the altar. At the gospel side, flanked by taper bearers and the thurifer, Pastor Robert Mohrhardt chanted: "Make not My Father's house an house of merchandise...
...have nursed along their expanding, profitable West Coast market (where the asking price is generally the sales price), no proposal could be more harebrained. They object that such plants would duplicate existing facilities, that no large deposits of coking coal or iron ore exist on the West Coast to make such an industry logical. The cost of hauling raw materials would, they insist, make West Coast steel more expensive than East Coast steel plus delivery charges...
...make this ambitious tragedy, producers took Maxwell Anderson's Broadway success, Elizabeth the Queen, had scripters tack on a new beginning. Knowing she acts nothing so well as a neurotic tantrum, they cast Bette Davis as the Queen, pulchritudinous Errol Flynn as Essex. Director Michael Curtiz was retained to pile on the pageantry. The result is a sumptuously Technicolored spectacle with some lyrically lovely scenes (hawk-flying), some eerie ones (Irish bogs...