Word: sound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inches, but full-grown sandworms are sometimes a foot long. As bait for flounders, weakfish and porgies they have no peers, the sandworm being especially alluring in spring and autumn, the blood worm in deep summer. Few years ago when salt water worms were rare, fishermen in Long Island Sound were willing to pay as much as 75? a dozen for them. Standard price in this year's well-organized market...
...Crusader Katterfeld started a little magazine called Evolution. He solicited and published sound, straightforward articles from reputable scientists, avoided the wilder forms of abuse but exposed and excoriated antiscientific pressure wherever he found it. In 1932 he found the struggle to keep Evolution going too difficult, decided to stop publication for a while and lay the foundations for revival by a campaign of vigorous field work. His three daughters and two sons, although sympathizing and helping, were inclined to laugh at his "pipe dream." But Katterfeld persisted...
...Labor] movement is a sound and healthy thing. It could be made the first step toward an integrated, Christian social order. It is a definite fact that Communist agents are active in the field. . . . If, however, an intelligent, Christian social doctrine be intelligently and zealously propagated in the movement, the Communists will not have a show. Understand, we see the need for Catholic participation in the movement if there never were such a thing as a Communist, but as things stand now there is need a hundredfold...
...part. Vehicle for the Broadway opening is The Mikado, with Danforth singing the lead, Frank Moulan the Lord High Executioner, and Irene Hervey, most fetching in a kimono, chorusing Three Little Maids from School with Vivian Hart and Carita Crawford. The finale is interrupted when conscience, stirred by the sound of approaching police sirens, impels Jimmie to reveal that the show has no backing and the house has been "papered" (packed free)-a confession which evokes unanimous demands for the show to continue, and Pearl's forgiving embrace...
Because it was a congress of writers everything was a little disorganized: the film began unwinding before Ivens had introduced it, and it was only after some difficulty that Chairman MacLeish managed to get it stopped. The sound had not been put into the picture, so occasionally through the hot silence the ghostly voice of Photographer Ivens would be heard saying, "At this point you would hear machine guns." But also because it was a congress of writers, they filled such gaps with their imaginations, responded with enthusiasm to some brilliant photography, much of it taken under fire...