Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the stomach. For the heroics of ordinary war pictures, Grand Illusion substitutes a pastoral interlude when Marechal and Rosenthal try to escape to Switzerland, and a German peasant woman shelters them on her lonely farm. The pastoral ends. A border patrol fires at the two fugitives in the snow. The shrill ring of the shots is the more shocking because they seem-as Director Renoir wishes to make war seem-completely out of place, too horrible to be more than an illusion...
...rice, and birds, and snow, and rings...
Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, with a heard as "pure as driven snow," Kitty retired in 1935. His "English 2: Six Plays" was one of the most famous courses in the country, and the mid-year and final exams with their long memory question and 60 to 70 "spot" passages were the terror of generations. During his reign he insisted on "Shakspere" as the correct spelling. His students will never forget the pearl gray fiannel suit he invariably wore, the glasses that flew up his lapel to their hanger with never a hitch, and his pungent injunctions against coughing...
According to astronomical theory no force external to the earth can produce large changes in its rotation on its axis. As for surface changes on the earth. Dr. Brown rules them out. Older theories held that accumulations of ice and snow at the poles might slow up the earth's speed. But the least amount of frozen water necessary to slow up the earth would have changed the average sea level all over the world by about a foot. This has not happened. The weight of mountains and force of volcanoes are also inconsiderable. Even if the whole group...
...from independents. Most of it will be spent on newspaper advertising. There will also be radio programs, six trailers, a contest in which 5,404 people will win a total of $250,000 by answering questions about 30 films and writing a 50-word essay. Sample question: "What did Snow White's stepmother coax her to eat in order to cast a spell over her?-a mince pie, an apple, a strawberry tart, or a roast duck?" Sample essay: "Snow White made me feel like a child again. . . ." Print order for the 32-page contest booklet...