Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...title. You can conjure the plot with the most elementary mental work. You know that some poor girl sold herself to some rich man and then was sorry. So she did. Running through the film there is a parallel tale of another girl who almost did the same thing. When girl No. 1 ended with a bullet in her heart, girl No. 2 hurried back to her husband. Claire Windsor is the principal performer...
...Manhattan, W. E. Harmon gave $50,000 to endow a cinema company?the Religious Motion Picture Co., which will produce films to be used as religious propaganda. No scenario, studio, actors or plan of action has yet been chosen. These things will come in time," said Mr. Harmon. "We have the money. That is the important thing...
...clearly I am enabled to express myself I do not know; but of one thing I am quite convinced: That I should have suffered a far greater handicap in life than I have in the way of expression of thought, clarity of statement, had I not studied the classic languages. I realize that nobody is now paying any attention to them and that a man may be a Master of Arts with a mere smattering of Latin and no Greek whatever, but I am not convinced that the loss of these two languages is contributing to accurate English...
...backbone of its moderately high level of instruction. There is a bewildering mass of miscellaneous facts to be mastered which from their very nature can not be too systematically coordinated. The course will provoke enthusiasm from those few who have a decided bent for this sort of thing and from the rest the semi-boredom with which the majority of students always regard a course so conducted as to demand much memorizing at the expense of creative thought...
...finest thing in the Freshman year, if not in the whole College,' said another. The instructor is on his toes with enthusiasm; every session is an inspiration. I wouldn't miss it for anything...