Word: previously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been made convincingly inhuman enough, Hillyer's conclusion has a fatuous unearned air, lacking inevitability. The final line projects certain rhyming dexterity, although what it implies is that if Ariel is as true as Caliban then Caliban is as true as Ariel, a conclusion counter to all the previous satirical trend...
...Orchestra, of which I was second clarinetist and bass clarinetist for several seasons, presented Dark Dancers in concert Feb. 5, 1935, Mr. Cadman at the piano. The music was of course played from manuscript. On each sheet, the title was written on a slip of paper pasted over some previous heading, which, after steaming off the paper slips, turned out to be Dance of Scarlet Sister Mary. Needless to say, those of us who were "in on the know" procured and devoured (somewhat secretively in a few cases I fear) copies of that book. Concert night, the program notes stated...
...Thursday audience is estimated at some 3,000,000. Last week it hit a new high when Utilities Man Wendell L. Wilkie and Assistant U. S. Attorney General Robert H. Jackson debated "How Can Government and Business Work Together?" With-in 36 hours 1,300 letters, six times any previous response, had poured into Manhattan's Town Hall, where the program originates...
...laboratories took a long stride toward solving the problem, and incidentally spilled much wind from the sails of the cohesion theorists, by announcing that he had found enormous pressures in the roots of tomato plants-pressures high enough to serve tomato plants hundreds of feet tall. The trouble with previous pressure experiments, it appeared, was that they were made on dead or dying roots. At Princeton, Dr. White has an apparatus which keeps detached roots alive indefinitely by supplying them with nutrient fluid. When he attached glass tubes carrying columns of mercury to his tomato roots, the mercury went...
...musical to appear, and as entertainment is superior to "Wake up and Live," although the music--"Sweet Someone," "I Wanna Be in Winchell's Column," "Darling, Jo Vous Aime Beaucoup," and others--may not have the appeal of "Never in a Million Years," and the title song of the previous production...