Word: unites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each character to say the most boorish thing he can think of to every other character. As a result, Wild Waves is chiefly notable for displaying 45 of the most disagreeable people imaginable. There are definitely funny lines and situations, but since the line seems to be the unit of the playwright's thought, Wild Waves is hopelessly muddled as to motivation and plot. The many admirers of Osgood Perkins ( The Front Page, Uncle Vanya, The Wiser They Are) can only hope that he soon gets a better job, of which it would appear he will presently...
Last week Depression forced De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., to close its diamond mines. Chief unit of the South African diamond syndicate, De Beers closed with the understanding that other mines would follow. But a favorite child of South Africa's government is its diamond-cutting factory at Kimberley. On the heels of the first announcement came news that the government had contracted with I. W. Schlesinger to operate this factory and other smaller ones. Price charged by I. W. Schlesinger was permission to work diamonds in his extensive holdings in Namaqualand. Before the syndicate was the prospect...
...opposes courses would reply, first, that large numbers are not a necessary condition of the problem, for colleges can give up the ambition to be large; second, that the course as a teaching device is not the object of attack at all, but rather the course as a unit of credit. The teaching of groups--not merely by lecturing, but by discussion and other classroom procedures--ought certainly not to be abandoned; it ought rather to be cultivated. But why obscure the realities of learning by inducing a false and perfunctory interest in the accumulation of marks for courses...
...latest addition to the length of Harvard's subterranean passages, a tunneled walk connecting Randolph Hall and Westerly Court with the central unit of Adams House, has finally been completed and was opened for use last Saturday. As a result of this final boring, the swimming pool in Westerly may be reached from either Randolph, or from the central unit of the House, where the dining and common rooms are located. At present the construction of the new building of Adams House is rising toward completion on the site of the former Russell Hall...
...Delegates had no unanimous idea last week how poison gas can be "barred." Poisonous gases are an ordinary product of every nation's chemical works, which are a unit in its industry, which is part of the Machine Age. Last week the Geneva Conference did not feel big enough to even dream of limiting or disarming the Machine Age, but it was 2,500 people...