Word: minored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Voice quality is of minor importance for an announcer, Cochran claimed. "What you have to say and the manner in which you say it" is the real criterion...
...experts on testing, for the essential difficulty is not one of methodology--whether an examination is objective or subjective or a mixture. The examination systems is closely tied to the lecture system, to the whole modern tradition of Harvard education. Until that tradition is altered, examinations, except possibly for minor reforms, are here to stay...
...five-minute trial in a minor Cambridge court awaits William L. Prosser '18, the professor of Law who last week pocketed a five dollar bill of William K. Poindexter 2L in class. The two parties agreed yesterday to have the Law School's own "Commonwealth of Ames" decide the issue in a meet court case...
...very close to it. James Stewart manages to mug a little now & then, but by & large his performance is exceptionally modest, and as good as his best. The Polish actress, Kasia Orzazewski, and the Dutch actress, Joanne de Bergh (as Conte's ex-wife), do particularly well in minor roles. Radio Actress Betty Garde is hair-raising in her biggest scene; and Jane Crowley makes her bit as a middle-aged tramp as memorable as a well-aimed mule's kick. E. G. Marshall is excellent as Miss de Bergh's second husband, and the writers...
Discursions. Intermixed with these scenes are long essays on revolution and German philosophy, brief glimpses of minor characters in a technique similar to that of John Dos Passes in U.S.A., long autobiographical discursions grouped under the heading: The Disintegration of Values. Some of them are hauntingly phrased: "The man who from afar off yearns for his wife or merely for the home of his childhood has begun his sleepwalking. . . . He still hears the voice of the demagogue, but it comes as a mere unmeaning murmur. He stretches his arms sideways and forwards like a poor tightrope dancer who, high above...