Word: surround
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Watkins has been observing conditions in the coal industry in the Illinois and West Virginia fields. He described the miserable circumstances which surround the lives of some of the miners in West Virginia as disgraceful to the United States. He presented, however, a bright picture of the alleviating influence exerted on the miners by what he termed "family paternalism" on the part of some operators. He protested against the prevalent belief that all American laborers possess automobiles radios, and all modern conveniences. He remarked that in the course of his survey he had found localities where men and women were...
...half mile of the Yard was dominated by the College, and even those of us who lodged in rooms outside the College buildings during some part of our four years were still within the academic sphere of influence. All now is different. Apartment houses crowd the streets and surround the Yard. The city engulfs...
...Bart McDonough, Bill Morton and Bill McCall took turns at directing the Green team, running through plays which the coaches considered rough in spots and needing some improvement. The practice would have continued until after dark had the team managers been able to turn on the flood lights which surround the football field...
...supplementary way they can expect to get those things also out of whatever other cultural influences they surround themselves with, meanwhile...
...this gentleman whose dialog is so real that it suggests the use of a dictaphone. Best shot: Claudette Colbert being told by her lover that he contemplates deserting her. Our Modern Maidens (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The romantic flush of Michael Aden, the decorative gush of a Zuloaga gone mad, surround the frolics of rich U.S. youngfolk-if you would believe cinema producers. Recently Our Dancing Daughters with its imperial salons and moonswept amours caused such a flutter in nationwide breasts and box-offices that the Metro people repeated the formula with practically the same players involved. Swagger Joan Crawford tosses...