Word: statically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monde Ou L'On S'Ennuie" is a charming relic of an almost forgotton period: the 1880's. A drawing-room comedy by Eduoard Pailleron, still in the repertoire of the Comedie Francaise, it suffers, as most plays suffer, in transference to the screen. There are long static scenes of photographed conversation, which must disappoint audiences that have been delighted by the rhythms of Rene Clair. The French have been among the leaders in the development of cinematic art, but the values of the present film are not cinematic. They are entirely those of the text and the acting...
...Hamilton, Ont., a stray cat struggled so desperately against Inspector E. G. McDonald's efforts to push it into the lethal gas chamber that the static electricity in its fur exploded the gas. The explosion blew the chamber to bits and knocked out Inspector McDonald. The cat vanished...
...Emerson's "terms of men" teachers and students alike--that plans for the century ahead are being made, and it can hardly be that we are entering a "static period" in our educational history--certainly not at Harvard. --N. Y. Times
...than the first. Instead of inventing new scholarships, new professorships, new graduate schools, Harvard will have to get on with its paltry hundred millions, try to make its expenditure more efficient and more valuable. Million dollar ideas require millions of dollars, and if President Conant's prediction concerning the "static" period which lies ahead of us comes true, this money won't be rolling in in the manner to which Harvard has become accustomed...
...compared with the past, we appear to be entering a static period in our social history. This being the case, the problem we now face as a nation is not one of expanding to any great degree our facilities for handling college and university students. It is rather that of improving the selective machinery in our school system which should sort out those who can profit most by four years of colleges and a subsequent professional training...