Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Capra made a few passes and presto! 1) much of Lindsay & Grouse's dialogue disappeared, and the cutting edge was flaked off; 2) the gadfly-buzz of the play's action slowed to a snore. To sustain the illusion of interest, Wonder-Worker Capra relied on a blaze of star-power: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Adolphe Menjou, Angela Lansbury. But Tracy, as in all his recent pictures, lacks fire; Hepburn's affectation of talking like a woman trying simultaneously to steady a loose dental brace sharply limits her range of expression; Johnson, playing a Drew...
...sustain the program, the Commission advocates the use of federal funds through scholarships and direct grants. It also proposes a substantial increase in adult educational facilities, and more local community colleges--many of them for two years' training--as part of state-managed organizations...
Reserves to sustain these seven men is a crying need for Berg. Stiff competition for first string positions on any athletic team gives a psychological boost to the entire squad plus giving much needed mid-competition rests for the starters. Berg uses the reserves he has. The big reason for the 59 to 32 lop-sided defeat that the Yearlings handed Nichols Junior College was that Berg boarded reserves during a low scoring first half to spring a fresh and superior quintet on the groggy Nichols five in the last two quarters...
Prosperity Planner. It was to do such jobs for small businessmen and farmers that Midwest Institute was formed three years ago at the suggestion of Kansas City Planner J. C. Nichols (TIME, Dec. 1). He thought the wheat bowl's agricultural production was not enough to sustain its precarious prosperity. What it needed was industry...
Bands of itinerant troubadors warbling carols and a short recorder concert will sustain the medieval theme of the evening during the supper which 500 undergraduates are scheduled to attend...