Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a 9 to 3 victory over Drexel on Thursday. The Middies, who play their first game on Saturday against Vermont, boast a seasoned pitcher in right-hander Ron Burton. Little is known about Penn or Army, although the Cadets are captained by outfielder Glenn Davis, he of stage, screen, and gridiron
Russia might stage an astute political retreat, while Communist propaganda would tap-tap on the U.S. conscience. Moscow indicated the line. Said Izvestia, in a bland and self-righteous editorial: "What is such monopolistic 'American responsibility' but a smoke screen for plans of expansion? Dilations to the effect that the United States is 'called upon to save' Greece and Turkey from expansion on the part of the so-called 'totalitarian states' are not new. Hitler also referred to the Bolsheviks when he wanted to open the road to conquests for himself...
...more machines help on other problems. The flashmeter throws a word on a screen for an instant, testing readers the "aircraft recognition" way. The metronoscope flashes sentences in phrases; it breaks the word-by-word habit and the rereading habit, builds rhythmic reading...
...Private Affairs of Bel Ami (Loew-Lewin; United Artists) is the latest example of Albert Lewin's passion for bringing musky literary classics to the screen. Writer-Director Lewin is responsible for movie versions of Maugham's The Moon & Sixpence and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. His adaptation of Maupassant's coldly sardonic novel Bel Ami is his smoothest job to date. But it also clearly defines the limitations of Mr. Lewin's kind of movie...
...slight fracas in 1926, the Station's relations with Harvard students have been calm enough to make the "rowdy undergraduate" stereotype seem fictitious. The one irregular episode occurred when the U.T. was first opened and students, perhaps to intimidate the unfamiliar apparitions, heaved over-ripe vegetables at the screen. Police were quickly summoned and a few heads were dented. But since that time, all patrolmen assigned to the College have been carefully chosen and no major incidents have developed. Furthermore, by keeping in close touch with University officials, the police have managed to apprehend any trouble well in advance...