Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion formed a part of the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Zukor's start in pictures. Several prints from each of his more outstanding productions of the past twenty-five years were included, and since his career closely parallels the rise of moving pictures, the photographs afford a complete panorama of the development of the industry...
...Hull said that he had previously obtained assent from the steering committee for the Conference, by a suspension of the rules, to grasp its supreme opportunity of erecting the Pillars of Peace immediately. To observers unfamiliar with the workings of human nature on such occasions, the Conference seemed to rise in a tempest of aspiration toward Peace. At this moment, however, Mr. Oswaldo Aranha, who ordinarily resides in Washington, D. C. and who as the Ambassador of Brazil is a constant professional acquaintance of the Secretary of State, sprang to his feet. His unanswerable argument was that...
...summoned her parents to analyze their mental and emotional makeups. Mary underwent fluoroscopy, blood testing, other examinations. A gynecologist also took her in charge, for the nasal and genital tissues are histologically related. The mucous membranes of the nose swell during sexual excitement. This well-known phenomenon gives rise to a theory that the noses of many little girls become sensitive as they turn into young womanhood, and that this makes such girls sniff, lisp or pamper their noses in an apparently affected manner, and that this overture to womanhood causes an occasional girl to sneeze uncontrollably. That, a gynecologist...
Some sulfur compounds cause body cells to grow extraordinarily fast, and are used regularly in medicine to hasten the healing of sores and wounds. Such substances may in some way be connected with the unknown physiological accidents which give rise to cancer. On the other hand, other sulfur compounds inhibit growth. These may be the body's regular protective guard against cancer. Miss Medes has made it her job to find out the answer to this phase of the cancer question, no matter what the cost. Thus far the brave scientist has discovered in her body none...
...time has come for someone to rise up in blasphemous heresy and explode the myth that Charles Laughton is infallibly the greatest living actor. For people are being lured in droves to witness his inane eccentricities in "Rembrandt", a passed of foolishness that passes as acting and rides by on the immortal representations of Henry VIII and Captain Bligh; and critics are apparently too stunned to realize that Laughton and Korda can fizzle. In the first place the story is a mere chronological biography possessing practically no dramatic force, and in the second place Laughton's magnificent voice is toned...