Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individual star, although occasionally the excellence of some one of them draws the warranted applause of the none too copious audience. In fact there is but a single weak point in the performance and that is the conclusion which lets one down with something of a jolt. A rapid and pleasant crescendo suddenly dwindles off into absolute nothing, but is compensated by what goes before. If you have not seen this you most certainly should at the earliest opportunity...
After several exchanges of punts the first team had the ball on its own 25 yard stripe. Then followed in rapid succession a 25-yard Huguley to Harding forward pass and a Forbes to Batchelder lateral. Huguley and Harding then teamed up to get off another forward and then Batchelder finally carried the ball over on a 4 yard thrust...
...other State offices . . . are in his keeping; that he owns the Public Service Commission; that he dictates all appointments which have any bearing upon his own interests; that he controls the General Assembly. . . . "The duties of a Governor are becoming every year more and more complex, owing to the rapid changes in social ideas. A large part of his work is above politics. . . . The immediate aim is to free society of its major ills so that life on this earth may be made happier by the mitigation of fear. Often the means proposed for accomplishing the end prove by experience...
...great cavity where once the Power House predominated. Instead of the two inevitable smokestacks one can see the cupola of Smith Halls, slightly tarnished and weather-beaten, perhaps, but still a distinct improvement. But it is high time to call a halt to this contemplation of Cambridge's rapid architectural metamorphosis and settle down to the duties of the coming year. With lectures to begin Wednesday there is no time to lose, for just around the corner lurk the wheels of knowledge just on the point of starting their nine month's grind...
Abraham Lincoln (United Artists). This is not a drama about Lincoln nor a portrait of him but a biographical sketch made of rapid, isolated sequences from his life. The approach is conventional, almost school-bookishly historical. In the producers' effort, often successful, to make a recognizable human being from the cryptic figure of Lincolnian anecdote, the audience is never allowed to forget that this human being was also the Savior of the Union. It is not the approach an artist would take; in taking it Director David Wark (Birth of a Nation) Griffith was thinking first of the boxoffice...