Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small-brained . . . man-apes of South Africa," observed Dr. Gregory, "now add their mute testimony that man, like his less ambitious cousins, the modern anthropoid apes, is a descendant of the late Tertiary dryopethicine ape stock of Europe, Asia, and Africa." In Dr. Gregory's opinion, indubitable apes evolved into indubitable humans during a profound structural upheaval compassed within the past ten or twelve million years...
...characters are relatively few, the scenes simple, the action consistently underplayed. The touches which strike the American audience are the little ones--the close-up of Von Stroheim's gloved fist as his French friend, and prisoner, dies; the scene in which the escaped Marechal talks French to a mute German cow. These flashes convey feeling in a way that Hollywood seldom uses, but it would be unfair to say that the best Hollywood technique is any less effective...
...Liberty Bell is silent and mute With a crack in its side from its pealing...
...Lloyd Wright, William Lescaze, Joseph Hudnut, the exhibition illustrates the immense field of Soviet architecture and city planning. Last week, in Robinson Hall of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, of which Joseph Hudnut is dean, the 47 panels of Soviet plans and photographs were standing a severe if mute criticism. Displayed in the centre of the hall were scale models of housing projects, factories and homes designed not by Russian architects but by Harvard students. By contrast with their clean functionalism, many of the recent Soviet buildings looked confused, bourgeois...
This morning's contribution to the public knowledge of traffic problems is equally notable for saying nothing. As far as suggestions for relieving America's 39,700 fatalities are concerned, this speaker also remains mute. In short, these two speakers disappointed their public, and this is a direct reflection on the Bureau for whom they spoke. Surely it is not too much to expect of experts that they give, instead of vague generalizations, some real suggestions. Future speakers should bear in mind that while the public may not want technical dissertations, they do demand logical analysis, coupled with some original...