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Word: reels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steel's eighth cinemappearance since the movies muscled in on his vast newspaper-magazine-radio audience (estimate: 50,000,000) last September. The picture also highlights a new U.S. cinema fashion: some 20,000.000 Supermaniacs can hardly wait for Superman's ten-minute, one-reel cartoon to appear once a month in more than 7,000 U.S. movie houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 6, 1942 | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Tomorrow night Albert Haynes will lead Summer School students and their guests through the gyrations and intricacies of the Virginia Reel and Square Dance as the first of several such affairs opens the barn dancing season. Admission for students is fifty-five cents, and stags and does are invited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer School Holds Free Dance Tonight | 7/3/1942 | See Source »

...what the people still expected was a thrill. They appeared to watch the preparations like moviegoers in the first reel of a horror movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Fine Fettle | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

From that incident until the final reel, Native Land seldom lets down. With a fine feeling for suspense and violence, it re-enacts the vigilante pursuit (in 1936) and murder of a pair of Arkansas sharecroppers who wanted a trivial raise, the Ku-Klux flogging of Joseph Shoemaker and two companions (in 1935, on a road north of Tampa, Fla.) for almost defeating a Klansman in the city elections, the untidy tale of a company labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 8, 1942 | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...make up his own mind as to what he should do. A number of students complained because certain possibilities had not been mentioned to them, but there is no instance of anyone missing out on something because he was not told of it. The Bureau obviously cannot reel off to each individual student the entire contents of its files. The matter of how much deciding the Bureau should do is debatable. Everybody wants someone else to decide for him, and it puts a lot of responsibility on College officials if they make a bad choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Streamlined Service | 6/5/1942 | See Source »

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