Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scheming villain. But Rosemary Lane has been badly miscast. Although she may present a luscious bit of femininity crooning dulcet lyrics in a Dick Powell musical, Miss Lane has not the force necessary to carry this heavy dramatic part. However, the film itself suffers from too much of this serious emotionalism. Its lack of an occasional touch of levity keeps it from being a truly superior production...
Ever since the $2 raise granted November 24, 1937, the dining-hall system has been on an unsound financial footing, and the continued existence of the Temporary Student Employment Plan is in serious danger as a result...
...world. Professor Ramon is famed as the man who developed diphtheria antitoxin, and the principle of multiple vaccination: immunization against several diseases with a single vaccination. > Dr. Ernest François Auguste Fourneau, master of chemical therapy, known for his local anesthetics, stovaine and stovarsol. Dr. Fourneau, a serious-looking man, when asked how he happened to name his discoveries, always says that he was inspired by the English translation of Fourneau, which is "stove." In 1935, after trying 1,161 sulfonamide compounds, Dr. Fourneau finally found the formula which conquered the streptococci of puerperal fever and meningitis...
...human writing machine Edgar Wallace had no rivals. But it would occur to few serious writers to pick him for the subject of a biography; if they did, it would be an almost irresistible temptation to make him into a satire or a sermon...
Like the friends of many another commercial writer, Edgar Wallace's averred that he could be a serious writer if he took the trouble. But they mistook the nature of his talent. His real genius consisted of an infinite capacity for taking pains to make money. And, like a true artist, he did not care what happened to the money after he made...