Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a motion picture studio set after being used for one big picture is revamped for a lesser one. In London last week a new cinema company, World Studio Center, Ltd., announced it would use the same set not for many pictures, but for six versions of the original, each in a different language, each made by a different company. Through this cooperation of foreign producers, World Studio hopes to cut its costs 30%, successfully to fight U. S.-made films...
...California caught the third period kick-off and went back 22 yards. Then he signaled the ball to himself until the Trojans had one score, squirmed and passed for another, and with three tacklers hanging on him in the last period took a kick to where his side could use it. Southern California 27, Washington State 7. Half a dozen admirals and the entire corps of Annapolis midshipmen saw the Navy line dam Dartmouth and the Navy backfield use a short forward pass-Gannon to Kirn-to upset the odds, 13-6. Cornell's off-tackle smash had Penn...
...year's product of the famed Walnut Hall Breeding Farm of Lexington, Ky., for $96,350. Steel. To save the skilled clubmakers of Scotland from competing with the cheap, excellent products of U. S. factories, the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews has long refused to let anyone use steel-shafted clubs in British golf tournaments. Last week the Royal & Ancient Club met, announced that steel shafts would be all right. Their reason: scarcity of good hickory...
Third, the fight against liquor in this country began more than a hundred and fifty years ago. Dr. Benjamin Rush, chief medical officers of the Continental army, witnessing the havoc wrought by liquor among the soldiers, used all his influence against it, but of course, the standards of the time was against him. Benjamin Franklin threw all the might of his influence against liquor. Washington repeatedly warned his officers to use all their influence to curb drunkenness. Shortly after the revolution several churches took up the question seriously, the Quakers and the Methodists leading the way. Other churches soon, followed...
...Foundation, which by its connection with Harvard is allowed the use of University laboratories and equipment, is at work on a six reel talking picture dealing with the history of Massachusetts over the last 300 years...