Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parasitic scheme of attempting to reduce novels and stage plays to the screen play, will not do. We have a new and a distinct device for dramatic expression and no one seems to know what to do with...
...Cooper's blueprints contain his plans (published last week) for an ancient scheme never yet effected on a large scale-"letting the ocean do the work." Along the Pacific Coast one occasionally sees a battery of barrels or floating cylinders sapping a mite of Ocean's strength as they are slid up and down on ratchets by the incoming rollers. There are still visible along the Atlantic Coast, relics of crude paddle-wheel tide mills, which worked only with the falling tides and kept their operators up at annoying hours as the tide changed its time of fluctuation...
...music, brought back to the stage George MacFarlane. He used to blend his baritone into the silken doings of light opera. In memory of this they gave him three songs to sing in addition to his acting. The latter was without distinction, fitting poorly into the whole scheme. He was a millionaire who suddenly lost his money and found the world immensely kind to millionaires without a cent...
Fearing that a tunnel under the Channel between France and England would never be built, Engineer Jules Jaeger Satisse thought of another scheme to end Britain's "splendid isolation," and this he sent to the Calais authorities. His plan calls for the building of two double-deck piers, each 261/4 miles long, from France to England. Between the two piers is to be a canal 300 metres wide to enable fast ships to cross in smooth water. The cost of the project was estimated at about...
...this point, several Rumanians and Germans offered to sell for $3,500 to Superintendent Dunlap a sure scheme to extinguish the fire. Their proposal was looked into, rejected. The next scheme tried was digging a tunnel up to the wall with the idea of dynamiting it. The project was stopped by irate Rumani who demanded huge payments for permission to use their property as a right...