Word: phased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Churches and schools do not seek or gain from the stage the aid rendered by moving pictures. This is the latest phase of the growth of an industry whose rise is more romantic and dramatic than the stories which it presents on its screens...
...other rewards of the profession, the ease with which a pastor, who is a baritone solo incarnate, can seduce the parish kittens. A few years of selling farm implements and indulging in small town waitresses are an ideal prolongation of Elmer Gantry's novitiate for his first great phase, evangelism...
...time-honored but unpleasant feature of bullfighting, national sport of Spain, is that phase of the performance wherein a picador enters the ring, mounted on a horse of small intrinsic value, and cajoles the bull into attacking his horse after he (the picador) has dismounted. The horse, unarmed, nude, often blind, invariably suffers heavy losses in an encounter of this kind. The bull gores him until tired; a team of mules then drag his remains to cover...
...religious customs, associations, and economic position of the Christian colony were among the most important phase upon which Professor La Piana spent his time. In the course of his researches he had occasion to make frequent visits to the Catacombs and other important early Christian churches and monuments...
...They were interested in it as a phase of life...