Word: processed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frenchman sees a thing and likes it, he improves upon it. The Orientals invented perfumes, the Hobrews invented clothing, the Americans invented the League of Nations, but they are all indisputably French now, and much improved by the process. And so it is with the talkies. It is the essence of a French talking-picture that contains subtle refinements on the Hollywood craft which transforms the craft into something at least approaching an art. Such is the case with "Les Cinq Gentlemen Maudits" presented today and tomorrow by the French Talking Films Committee at the Geography Building...
...Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee, no candidate, had received some 137,000 "protest" votes, to the alarmed dismay of Tammany Hall and its bull-jowled nominee for Mayor, John Patrick ("Potatoes") O'Brien. To cast a McKee vote citizens had to write his name in on voting machines-a process hampered by ignorance, lack of pencils and the hostility of Tammany election officials...
Perhaps the most important point, so far as the college man is concerned, which he made in this series of lectures, was his statement that reform must come through a process of education which brings new social standards before the people, and makes them more conscious of the all-important role which city government plays in their affairs. But far more significant than anything Mr. Seasongood might say concerning local government are the actual achievements of him and his colleagues in Cincinnati. At a time when there is prevslent widespread corruption on the one hand, and a sense...
...tentative plan for inter-House eating, which was advanced yesterday, may, by its suddenness; surprise many who had come to believe that a process which has been characterized by alleged buck passing and a hasty, ill-advised experiment was to find its obscure end in an effective committee cubbyhole. For these and for others who have regarded the problem as trivial the best refutation is to be found in the admirable report which accompanies the announcement...
...American, but it is not a history of the American people. . . and it fails to convince." America, says Professor Fay, requires an historian like Turner. His country "interested him so profoundly, he had tried so hard to understand her, to perceive her, and to explain her, that in the process he reached a plane of moral nobility and intellectual clarity higher than that on which his contemporaries take their stand...