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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of the outcome of the remedial reading experiment carried on last fall for members of the Freshman Class, it has been decided to continue and enlarge the sections for the coming year...
That was the last game of the year for proud Penn under the Munger-Crowther-Odell coaching regime, and although the result was an upset, it was no fluke. The inspired Quakers played the favored Redmen off their feet, and it looks like they intend to continue their victory march this year...
...basis for most of the play. To exploit its elephantine slapstick and bawdry, the Everyman sold its own soul to Hellzapoppin: threw in wisecracks about F. D. R., created the impression of medieval monks doing the shag, started a Yale cheer, thought up lines like "Calling all angels." The result was a muddled farce which might well have been titled Getting Goethe's Garter...
Most widespread innovation for 1940 are the Sealed-Beam headlights on 95% of the models (result of cooperation between the industry, lamp & lens manufacturers). Lens, bulb and reflector are sealed into a single unit. The new lamps light the road without blinding. Another big development is the "Hydra-Matic" drive (see Oldsmobile), which dooms the clutch pedal, lets the accelerator control...
...Like his two books of poetry, the novels suggested a virtuoso's familiarity with English, French and Oriental literature; in places this familiarity became obtrusive, as in one chapter ending of The Asiatics which echoed (beautifully) a paragraph from Baudelaire's Intimate Journals. What would be the result if this young American, born in Wisconsin and educated at Haverford and Yale, turned his imagination to his own country...