Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indeed, some have contended that it should. Newman defined his idea of a university as "a place of teaching universal knowledge, for the diffusion and extension of knowledge rather than the advancement." In his famous essay be recommended "a division of intellectual labour between learned academies and universities." (In twentieth century terminology we should substitute the words "research institute" for "academy".) He believed that "to discover and to teach are two distinct functions." Newman's proposal amounted to eliminating one of the four vital ingredients evident in the life of the universities during their healthy periods. Unconsciously he was reflecting...
...ended for the nonce all Puritan sobriety, and the Vagabond tried hard to partake of twentieth-century gaiety, with only John Harvard's likeness and the glow of the dancing torch-flames to remind of the celebrated past. The Pop Concert popped, and the merry ones sipped and stepped away the night, and a weary Vagabond crawled off to bed, already envying his progeny-to-be their four-hundredth birthday party...
Many a person living along the New York Central's right-of-way between New York and Chicago received a surprise last week as the Twentieth Century Limited rushed by. Coupled on at the rear were two slate-gray, streamlined cars, one of them relatively normal in appearance, the other definitely strange, with little square windows on two levels like the gunports of a frigate. One car was named Progress, the other Advance...
Sing Baby Sing (Twentieth Century-Fox) opens with the warning that any resemblance the characters may have to real people is due to coincidence. Seldom, if ever, has the remarkable influence of coincidence on screen writing been so apparent. After Joan (Alice Faye) has met Farraday (Adolphe Menjou) in a night club, their romance curiously suggests certain headline episodes in the recent love-life of Miss Elaine Barrie and Mr. John Barrymore...
...first serious casting as elflike Puck in Lac aux Dames. Arthur Willnetz, a man ager, introduced her to Sacha Guitry, who gave her a part in O Mon Bel Inconnu. Publicized as "La Sauvage Tendre," she was mobbed by a crowd at a personal appearance in Brussels, tested by Twentieth Century-Fox, signed by Zanuck. Smart, she learned English by reading fairy stories, listening to the radio, memorizing 25 words a day. Shy, she refuses to eat in the elaborate Cafe de Paris, official studio restaurant, dines in a counter lunch with the labor gangs. Says she: "I lived...