Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swing High (Pathé) depends entirely upon a widespread conviction, the nurturing of which the motion picture industry appears to regard as its most sacred duty, that circus sawdust is a powder of romance. Here a trapeze artist in a traveling circus becomes united, after vicissitudes and theme songs, with the protagonist in a medicine show. A distinguished cast including Helen Twelvetrees, Chester Conklin, Ben Turpin and Stepin Fetchit are involved in the itinerant sentimentalities. The villain is the ringmaster and has a mustachio...
...Harvard under the new organization are experiencing qualms of apprehension, joy, or revolt, the physical aspect of the University is undoubtedly bewildering those graduates of War days, the students of the era of John the Orangeman, and especially the inhabitants of Harvard when the mauve decade was in full swing and Harvard had a philosophy department. For even the massed chimneys of Dunster House, both the useful and the purely aesthetic ones, are only a few of the outward signs of change. The towering bulk of the new gymnasium opposing the Georgian structure of Lowell House has meant that...
...Dictator's personal physician recalled that Il Duce when performing the sedentary brain work of statecraft keeps to a scant, frugal, almost womanish diet. His sudden excess of appetite, his unwonted he-man meals, are the result of exercise, both muscular and vocal, on his recent whirlwind speechmaking swing around northern Italy (TIME...
Forum, with its 90,000 circulation and bountiful advertising, has little to gain by the merger, save to clear its cluttered field of one element of competition, and speed the swing of public taste away from the Victorian "genteel literary magazine" toward the virile, provocative medium for present-day skeptics. The joint title, Forum & Century will not affect its tactics while Editor Henry Goddard Leach remains...
...laboratory and observatory use. One of the clocks employs a pendulum enclosed in a vacuum chamber and kept at constant temperature. The pendulum has no escapement, driving spring or other mechanical attachment. Instead it is provided with a small slit through which a beam of light passes at each swing of the pendulum. The beam of light falls on a photoelectric cell and produces an electric current of short duration each second. These current pulses drive an auxiliary second's counter and clock dial for registering the time and also give magnetically impulses to the master pendulum for maintaining...