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Word: stillness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Letters may still be awarded, in special cases, on the recommendation of both the captain and coach of the team...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Bingham Overhauls Athletic Award Program | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

Right now, the club's treasury is getting a financial transfusion thanks to the unusual success "A Touch of the Times" has had so far. Still unseen by the public, "A Touch" has been snatched up for international amateur film distribution, professional showings, and television broadcasts. This sort of stuff just doesn't happen to silent movies unless they are exceptional...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Plans for Second Flicker Shape Up As Ivy Films Ends Successful Year | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

With money for sound equipment, Ivy threatens to hit the industry with highly professional talkies. Still in the midst of a script writing contest, Charles A. Yoder '49, president of the group, admits that the topic is not yet definite. "But," he asserts, "We've get a lot on the fire...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Plans for Second Flicker Shape Up As Ivy Films Ends Successful Year | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

...half that stayed home ought to make the trip while it still can. Astaire and Rogers assure any musical of success. When you add to them the comic talents of Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, and Helen Broderick and the music of Irving Berlin ("top Hat," "Isn't This a Lovely Day to Be Caught In the Rain," and "Dancing Cheek to Cheek") it's like insuring the Rock of Gilbraltar against erosion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

Some M-G-M officials secretly thought it was just as well. Quo Vadis still had no final shooting script, some casting and production details were unsettled; with luck, most of the $1,000,000 investment could be salvaged in the end. Besides, M-G-M still had an even jumpier headache: Judy Garland had flounced off the Annie Get Your Gun lot, and the company had decided to scrap much of some $1,000,000 worth of film and wait until late summer to start the picture all over again with Betty Hutton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quo Vadis, M-G-M? | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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