Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...itself sufficient to make Suez rank as one of the major spectacles of the year, the zobah-hah is only an incident in the latest addition to the series of heroic-sized historical plays to which Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck, once a specialist in turning mere newspaper headlines into screen plays, has recently made his forte. Highly romanticized, handsomely decorated and reasonably entertaining, Suez shows Tyrone Power as Ferdinand de Lesseps, successively overcoming the obstacles provided by the climate, Napoleon III, his love for the Empress Eugénie (Loretta Young), his sense of responsibility toward a towheaded waif (Annabella...
With their backs up against their own goal line after a punt by the Indians early in the first period, the Crimson team kicked to mid-field. The Green team made a mere five yards through the stone wall Harvard defense, and elected to kick on the fourth down. The kicker was rushed, and he lifted the ball high in the air only to have it fall on the line of scrimmage. A back roll put it five yards behind the line when a Crimson man jumped...
...College by stating that a student who is guilty of an offense against law and order at the time of a disturbance or who disregards the instructions of a proctor or other university officer at such a time may have his connection with the College severed, and that the mere presence of a student in a disturbance may result in disciplinary action...
...avoids the overemphasis of one hue to the exclusion of all others and sometimes he avoids the dilemma of a canvass splattered with all hues. When he has done this he has created a clay in which the pertinent colors are mixed with such subtlety and craftsmanship that a mere kaleidoscopic pattern takes form and breathes and becomes a living picture--a picture of Life...
...until he can recognize in it something which he has met and dealt with already. The all important difference between the mind which can clear itself by thought and the mind which remains bewildered and can proceed only by burying the difficulty in a formula-retained, at best, by mere rote memory-is in this power to recognize the new problem as, in part, an old conquest." Intelligence in its highest form, he adds, is ability to ferret out the changed meaning of old words in new settings. E.g.: The water is boiling in the kettle. The kettle is boiling...