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Word: pointedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mr. Hays pointed out that the industry which be controls started as a gold rush, analogous to the rush to the Klondike. Each producer sought financial success alone. Realizing that success does not come from wealth alone, many of the original producers sought to improve the standards of the films...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAYS SAYS MOVIES ARE WORLD FORCE | 3/16/1927 | See Source »

Professor Arthur Pope '01, Professor of Fine Arts in the University, spoke on the history of the Dramatic Club. He pointed out that every production it has gives in recent years has been either its first performance in America or has exploited a new theatrical field. "The Taming of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC ASPIRANTS START ON SPRING WORK | 3/15/1927 | See Source »

Later, in 1810, the Corporation asked the Legislature to issue a grant for another lottery. In presenting its case, the college pointed out is absolute lack of money after the erection of Stoughton Hall and repairs made on Massachusetts Hall. With the granting of their plea, the University authorities set...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Records Reveal Harvard Lottery to Bolster Early Building Funds--Stoughton and Holworthy Owe Existence to Tickets | 3/15/1927 | See Source »

As the Baldwins returned to their limousine a group of miners and their wives collected in half-hearted fashion. A woman, the wife of a miner still trapped in the mine, pointed to the Baldwins and suddenly shrieked: "Murderers! Murderers!! You won't let them rescue my Tom . . . you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Brutal Facts'' | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

Their first production, Loud Speaker, was written by John Howard Lawson, author of Processional (TIME, Jan. 26, 1925). As expected, it is staged against a "constructivist" background and presents the subjective state of the principal characters as well as their objective actions. The virtue of such staging is that, by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 14, 1927 | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

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