Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situation and ended the picture in three minutes. The origin of his power is given as his eyes ("hypnotism, nothing more") and Edmund Lowe's affable face works hard trying to look mystical. Tear-gas is used to make his eyes impotent and give Villain Lugosi a chance to prolong the picture. Resurrected from the bottom of the Nile. Lowe out-eyes Lugosi and the death-ray explodes, leaving civilization untoasted...
...Congressus Eucharisticus" and "Eire" (Ireland). Throughout Dublin some 450 loudspeakers have been set up to broadcast the affairs of the Congress over a 15-mile radius. Dublin florists advertised seeds which "if planted immediately will yield a wealth of bloom for the Eucharistic Congress." Another advt. said: "Enhance and prolong their stay by treating them to a night's rest on a 'Nelpha' mattress or bedstead." Dublin set up floodlights and searchlights, asked its citizens to help with electric lights and candles. An arclight, most powerful ever rigged up in Dublin, would write in the sky such...
...Following the post-War depression in 1922, the Japanese earthquake served to prolong the period of want, so that Japan may be said to be suffering from a ten-year major industrial depression. The rapidly increasing population has continuously rendered the situation more acute, with the result that a spirit of pessimism and desperation has grown up throughout the nation. The disturbances in China during the last year are largely traceable to this feeling which characteristically must find an outlet...
...churches and by despotic governments which have become self-perpetuating through this method of withholding original ideas from their subjects. Dr. Counts would apparently apply his principle to democracy and, at an early age, force an implicit trust therein on the nation's youth. This method of teaching may prolong the life of an institution, but it does not lead to true thinking, a more worthy object of education...
...Paul is 84. By refusing to run again for President he would doubtless prolong a life which his big red country house and his rosy-cheeked, laughing grandchildren make pleasant. Most Germans, when they learned that Old Paul had consented to run again, felt a tug at their heartstrings. They assumed that if re-elected on March 13 President von Hindenburg will die in office. If he lived out his second term he would...