Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent poll of the Football Writers Association Harvard received the highest rating of any Eastern college in respect to treatment of the newshawks. The Crimson got an 87.2 vote of confidence for the working conditions of newspaper men. Special mention was made of the press box in the Stadium...
Addicts of light opera might be offended by a humorous or credible plot. Three Waltzes in this respect is singularly inoffensive. Its charm lies in tuneful music, ebullient singing and dancing, vivid staging. In a ballet school, with costumes after Degas, begins the luckless romance of the ballerina (Kitty Carlisle) and Count Rudolph (Michael Bartlett). In Paris of 1900 the same pair appear as another ill-starred couple, with the ballet converted into Toulouse-Lautrec girls doing a violent cancan. At last, in a contemporary cinema studio, the lovers, as descendants of their former selves, find their happy ending...
...true without qualifications which irate artists usually omit. Last year the favorite butt of these attacks, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, bought no less than 28 paintings by contemporary U. S. artists, including Waldo Peirce, William Gropper, George Biddle. In general, museums have not only loosened up in this respect, but have begun to spend less money on the acquisition of sacred masterpieces and more on a job just as essential to the artist: public art education. Since 1932, for one example, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, besides covering brilliantly every present-day trend in art, has circulated...
...included on its western edge, is a particularly powerful proton (Britain) that has 'wave characteristics' of a definite type peculiar to itself. In the south there is what might be called a neutrino (Italy). This has, some think, also wave mechanic aspirations. It is peculiar in this respect that its core is eternal (Rome) but its surround, some think, is ephemeral...
...respect the firm is to be congratulated. It has realized that there is a place for research in the present economic system; it has seized on this opportunity, acquired reference books, bibliographies and other facilities known to scholars; it has adapted "book learning" to practical use and is prepared to aid men of affairs in dealing with academic problems, at a price. But in placing the names of college students on its mailing list, it has entered territory in which it is not in the least welcome...