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Word: parte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movie directors try to improve upon the works of the world's greatest writers and as a result drag their masterpieces down to the level of cheap comedy. Look what they did when they put my father's famous books. "Anna Karenina" and "The Cossacks", on the screen! My part in the production of these pictures was to fight for as little mutilation of the original as possible. I won about 50 per cent of that fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Count Ilya Tolstoy Prophesies World Destruction Under Juggernaut of Mad Struggle for Luxury-Decries Movies | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

...ornate but less exacting service in European posts, to add prestige to South American embassies. The proposed plan is in accord with the experienced organizing ability of Mr. Hoover, and diplomats will soon learn that the needs of the service outweigh the personal preferences of those who are a part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIPLOMATIC PRESTIGE | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

...reaches the 'end of the Charles River Dam where it connects with Nashua St., which is now being widened. This is a clear run of nearly four miles without danger to pedestrians who are fenced out of the drive. The Boston-Brookline traffic, it is believed, would be in part deflected from Beacon St, and Commonwealth Ave, to the new drive under the Harvard Bridge arches and thus the present congestion of Boston-Cambridge traffic on Massachusetts Ave would be relieved. The Basin drive would also run under the arches of the Longfellow Bridge and therefore relieve further congestion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Killam Discusses Proposals to Alter Charles River and Basin | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

...merely one aspect of the change which has come about, the denial of the privilege to watch practice sessions and the consequent necessity of reading the papers to keep posted on the daily progress of the team, have resulted in a considerably diminished interest in team personalities on the part of undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR AT CORNELL | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

...team, was champion in the 135-pound class. Lifrak has put on weight, how ever, and will be an aspirant for the 145-pound title in this week's meet The Harvard lineup, with one exception, will be the same as that which has been used during the latter part of the season. C. G. Chase '30 will be replaced in the 115-pound class by M. O. Gibeon '29 owing to scholastic difficulties encountered by the former...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERCOLLEGIATE MAT CONTEST TO BE HELD HERE | 3/13/1929 | See Source »

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