Word: reel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the exception of four or five Harvard students, half the professors, and all the Radcliffe girls who use the board steps, the rank and file of the College reel precipitantly down the ice-covered, unboarded steps diagonally from the front door to the outer periphery. For the first week one stands an even chance of getting to the bottom without amusing the smokers lounging about the pillars by an elaborate balancing act in attempting to maintain his equilibrium. At the end of this period, the going becomes increasingly difficult, so much so that only the most intrepid can traverse...
Newell Boathouse served as a set for moving picture production yesterday afternoon when representatives of seven nationally known news reel companies took silent and sound pictures of crew N of the University squad rowing in the winter practice tank...
...Pierre De Lagorde Boal of Boalsburg, Pa., chief of the department's conference secretariat, sat in his office like a traffic officer directing the two-way flow of messages. In the office labeled "Division of Current Information" waited Robert McGregor Scotten beside his well-oiled mimeograph, primed to reel out press releases from London...
...futile to carry Idealism so far as to consider that college students go to bed at twelve o'clock. Telephone service is as necessary after that hour as before. For the man who has ever been taken ill in the middle of the night and been obliged to reel to the nearest public phone to call a doctor, no further argument is necessary. Then the University, with its usual business acumen and perspicacity, charges for ordinary calls in these buildings on a time basis. The shock of this discovery which comes with the first phone bill is nearly as great...
...phenomenal commotion occurred in Manhattan last week. The Amateur Astronomers Association prepared to show a five-reel motion picture graphically explaining the simpler features of the Einstein relativity theory, at the American Museum of Natural History. The museum's auditorium has 1,400 seats. Four thousand people tried to attend. In their crowding eagerness they jostled each other, bustled guards, pushed down an iron gate, shoved a heavy door off its hinges...