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...Saturday, the quintet will play Chet Forte in the I.A.B., while the hockey team drives to Providence to regain the Ivy League lead against an inexperienced Brown six. The game will be preceded by a Yardling match on Providence's "stuffiest-of-all" rink...

Author: By The CITY Editor, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...sociology and traditions which surround each masterpiece. Artists will supplement slides and motion pictures in demonstrating the techniques under study; when Chinese brush paintings are on exhibition a Chinese scholar might demonstrate the rapid stroking used in their creation. Dooley accounts for the astonishing TV enthusiasm of even the stuffiest scholars as "latent ham bursting forth...

Author: By Robert A. Fish, | Title: WGBH: A Station for Special Publics Develops an Eye as Well as an Ear | 2/2/1955 | See Source »

...annual exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the oldest U.S. show, put on by the nation's oldest art school*-and more often than not it is the stiffest, stuffiest major art show in the U.S. Its Temple Medal (no cash) is the second most important U.S. art prize (first: Carnegie Institute's annual $1,000 award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Philadelphia Goes Modern | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

Buying war bonds was patriotic but dull for months on end, a duty of the stuffiest kind, which wounded one's wallet at the same time it depressed the spirit. Then the Treasury soft-pedaled the grim reminders of danger, need and duty, and called in Hollywood and Broadway. As one man the pressagents ordered: "Cheesecake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Cheesecake for Victory | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...subsidiary of Loew's Inc. Accustomed to spending as much as $3,000,000 on a picture (Conquest, Marie Antoinette), M-G-M does so to give proper setting to Hollywood's greatest star roster, to produce most of Hollywood's best jobs, many of its stuffiest. Over last fiscal year, Loew's Inc. topped the cinemindustry with a net income of $14,426,062. In the coming season, MGM's schedule calls for 52 films, to include Northwest Passage, with Robert Taylor; The Women, with Norma Shearer; The Citadel, in production in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prospectus | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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