Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other blossom-time duty the President took care of: he attended the spring Gridiron Club dinner postponed until his return. Notable sketch provided by waggish newshawks: Vice President Garner in the role of Mark Antony reciting...
...pulled the Caproni and Donati, into thin air and a temperature of -68° F; eight miles, 8½ miles, just 180 ft. short of nine. Then Pilot Donati pointed to earth, came down so fast he fainted when his wheels touched the field. His altitude mark was 2,521 ft. higher than the world record held by France. Thus Donati, Caproni & Stella gave Italy top honors in plane altitude, to add to her top honors in speed...
...table experiments, however, usually make up for this, except when some assistant has prepared them incorrectly and they fail to respond according to Hoyle. The quizzes themselves, coming always as regularly as Fate, are taken entirely from the two lectures of that week, and count heavily for the term mark. As for the lab work, if the student works earnestly and hard during the entire period, he can finish the prescribed work in the time allotted; most students come back another day. Although the majority of the experiments are dry and boring routine, several of them give to the aspiring...
Built around, and sustained by the sensuous strains of Ravel's "Bolero," this film loses much of its effect when the rendition of the feature scene fails to come up to the mark. The recurrence of appealing waltzes and tangoes with the accomplished dancing of George Raft, Carole Lombard, and Frances Drake, and the absence of leg extravaganzas and water scenes, combine to make it a picture considerably above the average of musical revues...
...force of sectionalism and the tremendous multiplicity of interests in this country which cause this shot fired round the world to hit the Lexington men in the back, without ever having found its mark in Washington. There is undoubtedly much fear and to-do in the South, West, and Middle-West; of the planless planning, the extravagance, and the new-booms-and-depressions of the Roosevelt regime. But the expressions of this are not going to come from the East, if at all. In the popular mind, the voice of the East is the voice of the Bankers...