Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 18 years of bustling importantly in Geneva, typical League of Nations officials look on almost anything from the point of view of how it might be turned to the advantage of the League. In Geneva, members of the British delegation and others rumored that at Godesberg last week (see p. 16), Mr. Chamberlain was urging that any European settlement reached with Herr Hitler be "crowned" by having Germany resume membership in a League of Nations now somewhat "revised." Such revision the Scandinavian states launched by announcing that they no longer regarded League members as bound "automatically" to join...
...present time motorcars kill 5,000-6,000 people per year, and measles 2,000-3,000. And in view of the fact that people tolerate fast motorcars, and readily preventable diseases, their great objection to being bombed from the air is an interesting psychological fact...
...Hays censorship, perform it in their stride. Since there is nothing spectacularly bad about If I Were King, it will doubtless appear on every list of worthwhile films compiled by every self-appointed reviewing board in the U. S. But its makers have found not one fresh point of view, have included every available cliche of sword-&-cloak romance, plus the cliché of modern fiction, social significance. Result: so wooden that even the clashing of swords suggests a xylophone...
Most of the plans and photographs on view in the exhibit at the Architectural School are of works done abroad. The designs are illustrated by many fine pictures with plans that he has drawn attached. Showing well the wide scope of his imagination is the "Garden City of the Future." The buildings are arranged so that a maximum amount of light enters every part and with wide expanses of glass and white glistening exteriors the impression given is that of light, airy construction. Wide boule-yards run symmetrically throughout the city and on every side are beautifully landscaped gardens...
With law their most favored occupation, there are no prospective organ grinders, street-sweepers or WPA employees listed as the great majority of Freshmen showed they came to college with a definite career already in view...