Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year and a half ago tall, robust Edwin Augustus Lee conceived a stunt to dramatize these facts. Dr. Lee, a former San Francisco school superintendent, is director of the National Occupational Conference, which was founded in 1922-under the leadership of General Robert Irwin Rees, head of the A.E.F.'s University in France in 1918-19-to gather facts about jobs. Dr. Lee herded 13 top-rank public-school superintendents into a private Pullman and for ten days, with their expenses paid by the Carnegie Corporation, these superintendents toured the schools of eight cities. They found interesting experiments...
Evans had shown that an uncut Hamlet is no stunt, but an illuminating and vital enlargement of the world's most famous play. Shakespeare's tragedy, smudgily superimposed on centuries of older material, muddied by contradictory First Quartos and Folios, bristling with controversial motivations, above all dealing with a chief character as baffling as he is baffled, is truly-in Critic T.S. Eliot's phrase-"the Mona Lisa of literature." Its elucidation requires not so much scholars as detectives.* When seen on the stage in its full proportions, Hamlet is possibly more of a riddle than ever...
...celebration" of the second anniversary of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's dictatorship, Spanish Rightist aviators last week dropped tens of thousands of quarter-pound loaves of bread over the hungry Leftist cities of Madrid and Barcelona. Believing they had pulled off a stunt calculated to persuade Leftists that a Rightist victory would mean a full stomach, Rightist propagandists announced that Madrid's share of the bread, safely floated to the ground in makeshift parachutes, had been 178,000 loaves. Later, ending a week's pause, Rightist batteries west of Madrid resumed their futile shelling of the city...
...folly of "slow-low" flying: "When the time comes . . . to nose down to secure proper control of an aircraft at low altitude, there are only two kinds of pilots: 1) the quick, 2) the dead." Says Publisher Collins: "No sane man can read Air Facts and then stunt at 500 feet...
Crimson cheerleaders will continue to try to evoke oral enthusiasm, technically known as "chatter" from the Harvard stands today. The season's first acrobatics will be introduced, but there will not be a stunt until next week. One cheerleader reported that "we are ready to lay down our larynxes for our college...