Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daily Bread" the cinema becomes socially conscious and treats with a theme that is truly proletarian. In an attempt to give a "powerful" treatment to a story of the common man harassed by truly gigantic economic forces, King Vidor has an obvious sincerity. Because of this notable sincerity and the courage of the theme itself, one is loathe to level the criticism of triteness against "Our Daily Bread." But sympathetic as one may be to such a sudden nobility in movie subjects, and we do believe this to be genuinely sincere, it is hard to see any symptoms of masterpiece...
...short walk through several doors brought the sheriff and his visitor to the dentist's room. Well equipped, it looked quite proper for the treatment of oral difficulties. Across the hall was the operating room, to which the doctor could be summoned at any time of day or night. Instruments were neatly arranged under glass, ready for immediate use. Perhaps Mr. Robart was comparing these rooms to the torture chambers of a medieval bastille when he made his statement, for it is hard to find a closer comparison for other parts of the prison...
Villain No. 2 was Attorney General Cummings, who, according to .the bellicose Wisconsin Federation, had given organized Labor "the shabbiest treatment accorded to any set of people in recent years." Mr. Cummings was flayed for failing to prosecute NRA violators. "Only a single injunction suit has been brought by Mr. Cummings." said Judge Padway, "involving the Weirton case, and this one has been so badly bungled that it should never have been started...
...Curie-Joliots proposed for elements made artificially radioactive such names as radio-nitrogen, radio-aluminum, radio-silicon. They foresaw the use in cancer therapy of packets of artificial radio-elements, which, because they disintegrate as the radiation dwindles, would not have to be withdrawn from the body after treatment as radium seeds must be. They told of experiments presaging the production of a radio-phosphorus which would emit neutrons (emitted by no natural radioactive substance). And they spoke of work indicating the existence of the neutrino, an ultimate particle lacking electrical charge like the neutron, but small in mass like...
When pressed for details concerning this unique organization, Mr. Kirkland explained that it was a permanent acting group formed to give a group of plays, all with the same distinctive treatment...