Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After finishing Fools for Scandal, Producer LeRoy, a son-in-law of Triumvir Harry M. Warner, left the family plot for a production berth at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, safe from barbed thrusts about nepotism. Sawed-off, narrow-eyed, cigar-waving Producer LeRoy is still hailed, at 37, as the Boy Wonder. At five he fell three stories in the San Francisco earthquake, landed unhurt on a mattress. At nine, engaged at $2.50 a week in a stage production of Barbara Frietchie to watch for the Rebels from a prop tree, he fell out of the tree, got a raise because...
Before 1930 correlation exams depended on general questions; actually they were reviews of elementary courses. To remove the "snap," there was devised a system based upon specific questions. Now every one, disliking over-specialization, dislikes this method, claiming that the exams are so narrow as to be almost another test of a candidate's special field. Most of the material, moreover, can be gathered from certain advanced courses, thus making the new system the same old story. To climax the dissatisfaction, it was discovered last year that few candidates used tutorial reading for preparation. For this failure the tutors cannot...
...anti-Rooseveltian Democrats who helped defeat the Court Plan jumped jubilantly into the fight against it. First test of their strength was an amendment proposed by Massachusetts' David Walsh to leave the civil service administration under a three-man commission. It was defeated, but by such a narrow margin-50-to-38-that Floor Leader Alben Barkley promptly betrayed the fact that his alarm outweighed his satisfaction by leaving himself appallingly wide open to a rude jibe from Idaho's Borah. To Mr. Borah's suggestion that the President favored shifting the Forest Service from the Agriculture...
...narrow margin (37-to-30) the Assembly had voted down a proposal to have the proceedings broadcast over a national hookup. Concealing whatever chagrin he felt at this. Convict Mooney, dressed in the neat blue suit he wears on such occasions, began his story quietly into a loudspeaker which promptly required adjustment. While it was being repaired, newspaper and newsreel cameramen flocked about the celebrity. Said Convict Mooney: "I hope you people in the room will bear with me but after being buried for 21 years ... I sort of take to all this...
...protracted laboratory hours, the Chemistry concentrator at Harvard lives a woefully narrow and restricted existence. A large portion of his college days must be sacrificed to the god of experimentation, and as a result, he has little time for those cultural and broadening pursuits which are among the chief privileges of a college education. In many cases, even the bare minimum amount of exercise necessary to keep him in decent physical shape is denied him, while extracurricular activities are a luxury. Certainly some reduction in laboratory hours is indicated if he is expected to become the well-rounded and broadly...