Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salt was rubbed into Hanfstaengl's wounds nearly a year later, when form letter appealing for contributions to a National Scholarship fund was inadvertently sent out to him. Not sure that the didn't mean that Harvard had changed its mind about accepting his offer, Hanfstaengl wrote back offering to raise his offer to $10,000, to provide for the traveling fellowships for a period of ten years...
...form into the body of soviet law measures initiated, approved, determined by the Communist Party-though Party decrees are theoretically binding only on Party members. They are the shadow of the Party, moving when the Party moves. Bigger than military questions is the problem of how much their moves mean to the 23,000,000 industrial and office workers, the 93,500,000 peasants and artisans, who in time of war will be compelled to protect the State, and who for 20 years have made sacrifices for its future...
...from a tree; and the William Paley Radio Trophy of stainless steel cones surmounted by wires. These stayed perfectly still. Motionless or jiggly, they were all creations of Alexander ("Sandy") Calder, a hulking, greying, boyish onetime mechanical engineer, onetime painter. Though his Mobiles and Stabiles did not pretend to mean anything-except possibly No. 8, which resembled a pair of deliberate ballet dancers-they are oddly pleasing, oddly arresting...
Most good playwrights get a break, but screenwriters are under a big bushel. Most screenwriters with big names made them elsewhere, like Ben Hecht, Robert Sherwood, Dorothy Parker. Some, like Grover Jones and Frances Marion, have big names in Hollywood that mean little to outsiders. Others, like Wesley Ruggles' Claude Binyon or Frank Capra's Robert Riskin, won fame as co-members of celebrated director-writer teams. Still others, like Darryl Zanuck and Alfred Hitchcock, got their glory in bigger jobs. As compensation for their comparative obscurity, screen authors work more steadily than playwrights and generally make more...
...indeed was such unanimity among writers, stranger still P. E. N.'s sudden plunge into politics. Startled observers asked themselves: Are P. E. N. writers ahead of their readers or are they just catching up with the world's fear that civilization is doomed? Do they really mean to fight the forces threatening it? Answers to the second question were not long in coming...