Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Considered from a strictly technical point of view, the job was too great for the cast assigned to it. Sylvia Sydney seemed little more than adequate in her portrayal of Jo; she was too sophisticated at times for a sympathetic rendering of a tomboyish bookworm. Amy was the best-played character in the cast, with Edythe Ward giggling and mispronouncing her way to humor and at times adding a human interest touch. Otherwise the cast was decidedly mediocre, except for individual moments too scattered to be effective. Mary Barthclmess, as Beth, was little more than good in her playing...
...League of Nations and the Post-War World; I. Professor Sydney B. Fay, Chairman, Professor Gottfried Haberler, Dr. William Hermanns, Christian A. Herter. New Lecture Hall. 4 o'clock...
...Goteborg track meet, Haegg ran a mile in 4:06.2, two-tenths of a second under the record set by Britain's Sydney Wooderson in 1937.* Two days later, at Stockholm, he ran two miles in 8:47.8 -to shatter Finn Taisto Maki's pending out door mark by five seconds and Montanan Gregory Rice's indoor mark by three...
...Japanese and ' Australian airmen had darted back & forth trading inconclusive blows at each other's outposts. It was a waiting game, with the opposing navies screened by islands and ocean wastes. Then this week the Japanese sent three two-man submarines nosing into the harbor of Sydney, third largest city (pop. 1,305,040) of the British Empire...
...first passed close by a passenger-jammed harbor ferry, periscope and conning tower in plain sight. Depth charges jarred the Sydney waterfront. A communique from General MacArthur's headquarters announced that all three of the midgets had been destroyed, that Allied losses were limited to the damaging of one insignificant harbor vessel...