Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originated from private schools, which are usually regarded as superior. One semester of average Freshman courses is enough to make these realize that they are merely studying under a new system the same subject matter learned in school, to burst their bubbles of academic enthusiasm, and to make them restless and wayward. Thus, bored prep school men are ready and no doubt willing to do this advanced work. Proof of this is the fact that when, some years ago, freedom in selection of courses was granted, more than 300 Freshmen turned to advanced courses. Forty per cent of the grades...
Five metropolitan newspapers pacified their restless laborers last week with compromises...
Last week 245 printers on the three big daily newspapers in Portland, Seattle's sister city in the industrially restless Northwest, struck for a $9 seven-hour day, refused to arbitrate further. Instead of the classic newspaper tactics of trying to fight it out, publish a paper somehow, Portland's Oregonian, Oregon Journal and News-Telegram just closed down. While Portlanders spun their radio dials for news, police posted in the newspapers' plants twiddled their thumbs. There was no violence. The American Newspaper Guild is notably weak in Portland, so instead of supporting the striking printers, editorial...
...ballet is merely pretty movement to titillate the fancies of tired businessmen. The modernists have long held entrenched positions in arty lofts and studios, have expressed sexless conceptions of revolt and starvation to the tootling of oboes and the thumping of drums. In Broadway theatres on Sunday nights these restless, grim-eyed chorines illustrate the serious things of life before coal-black backdrops, attract audiences of starry-eyed worshippers at a $2.50 top (standees...
...into something pretty miserable, and the spectator is not disappointed. There are chases in the night, airplanes, motorcycles, machine guns, and just everything. In between times, the gay dashing and apparently (from this picture) boring life at an Army post is depicted to the point where people start getting restless and rustling paper candy wrappers. Plan to miss...