Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This movie has been kicking around the States since 1950, when it was imported from England. Time has improved neither the originally poor lighting of the black-and-white film nor the fuzziness of the sound. The latter condition, along with the thickness of the accents, might even make sub-titles desirable Even though "Tight Little Island" is not often uproariously funny, seeing it is a pleasant enough way to spend an evening...
Speaking for a small college, I wish that you had placed more emphasis on the fact that "big-name colleges" have no monopoly on sound liberal arts education...
...German uniforms, almost identical with the army and Luftwaffe uniforms of World War II .The German army boot was back too, but this time with a difference. "Gentlemen," grinned Strauss to an audience assembled to view the new uniforms, "these boots do not permit heel-clicking or the reverberating sound of marching. These boots are fitted with demokratisch-bürgerliche Gummisohlen [democratic civilian rubber soles...
Christopher Rand, a former Nieman Fellow, noted the cynicism among many magazine journalists. "When editors of women's magazines talk to me, they sound like cattlemen discussing cows," he said...
These experiments are still young: the first attempt to teach composition has begun in the last tenth of local history, and Harvard was a pioneer among universities in this field. (Ofcourse English A and Rhetoric go back a long way, but these courses were aimed more at "sound and orderly expression," than at the ephemeral web we call...