Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first connection with the cinema was that of an actor; he used later to direct Mary Pickford or Mack Sennett, making a picture a day. According to tradition, it was D. W. Griffith who suggested that cinemas be lengthened to two reels, who invented the closeup, who enlarged the scope of the camera beyond that of the human eye. His The Birth of a Nation was perhaps the first picture which approached the potentialities of the cinema. Others, a list which betray D. W. Griffith's highly disputable flair for titles, are: Hearts of the World; Broken Blossoms; Orphans...
...believe that New England, like the other sections of our country, has had in the past a well-defined provincial culture, and has made a distinctive contribution to American life, character and civilization. A quarterly journal, including within its scope the literary, social and economic history of New England, and the westward expansion of New England people, should first, meet a recognized need of scholars of history and literature, and, second, the rising generation of scholars in a field that needs cultivation. In the study of American literature many large problems and topics must wait for final treatment until...
...coincidence that so often generates his plots. But these faults are rooted in deeper virtues: an intense sincerity, unconcerned with merely literary effects, a profound, pitying pessimism, a relentless humanism that condemns the disorderly dieties who make men's lives sterile and without joy. There is also the scope, the inclusiveness that permits him to deal with large effects, to call, in the sweeping vigorous lines of The Dynasts, for Napoleon's army to appear upon the stage...
Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland is devoted to States Rights. But last week, at a convention of Maryland farmers, he proposed something Federal in scope-a compact national organization of farmers, comparable to the American Federation of Labor, and for it Government aid comparable to Industry's tariff. Labor's immigration law, Banking's Federal Reserve...
...statement in the 1927 issue of the annual report, Hamlen says, "The office is constantly endeavoring to broaden its scope and contacts, to extend its faculities to business houses throughout the country, and 40 assist those graduates who have not yet found satisfactory positions. To do this more effectively it must depend upon the continued interest of the alumni and the employers. It is hoped that the alumni, especially, will keep the Appointment Office actively in mind, the notify its Secretary whenever there are openings in their own organizations, or any others. The source of such information can be kept...