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Word: respectibility (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feature, adds practically nothing but Philip Holmes to the bill. Moving with his usual youthful dignity across a background of juleps, magnolias, and better than average southern accents, the newly risen star comes to love and respect a father who had been a jail-bird. The picture is no better than it could...

Author: By B. O., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/7/1931 | See Source »

...place of debating in undergraduate life. The neglect of forensics may be caused by the fact that the universities in this country are not traditionally, as they are in England, training grounds for the nation's statesmen. Although American universities cannot be made replicas of the English in this respect, there are other means of inciting brilliant men to rescue college debating from the nadir into which it has fallen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PASSING OF ORATORY | 3/3/1931 | See Source »

...little relationship to their explosions and machine gun fire resembles the noises made by cabaret rattles, this is one of the best directed and most gruesome of War pictures. High credit should go to Director G. W. Pabst who with small resources made a picture that in every technical respect except sound can compete with the best Hollywood product. U. S. spectators can understand it in spite of the German dialog, for the action of trench-warfare is pantomimic enough to be self-explanatory; they will find in it the nervous impact of unbearable physical horror. Comrades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 2, 1931 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...which lacks a high standard of teaching and equipment. It has reached down to the premedical colleges to urge that their courses provide the prospective doctor with a sound foundation of learning and culture. It has reached up to the hospitals where medical graduates, to have the confidence and respect of practitioners, must now spend at least one year as internes. Every high grade, that is "acceptable," medical school now requires at least two years college work from its matriculants. A few require four years and a baccalaureate degree (A.B. or B.S.), a policy initiated by Johns Hopkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sanity | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

Foch. The success of "Max" in this respect was so great that he began to lose his well won reputation as a fighter. Appealing to his "spiritual father" for a real chance to fight again, he was sent to Poland,where to he vindicated his military genius by directing the successful Polish resistance to the Bolshevist armies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: New Generalissimo | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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