Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revive her by biting her, failed, remained several hours, departed. What he did not tell while under the influence of scopolamine was that he had imitated a woman's voice when he answered the telephone. He was held for first-degree murder. In Science versus Crime,* a vivid survey of modern scientific criminology, Author Henry Morton Robinson has glowing things to say of scopolamine, believes extensive, skillful use of it would eliminate much third-degree brutality. Quite another view was apparent in a blast last week from Dean Paul G. Toohey of Kansas City's Rockhurst College...
...Bounty under sail, and the land sets are deserving of commendation, but one could keep on for hours. The fact remains that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has brought a great tale of men against men to the screen just about as effectively as did Nordhoff and Hall in their vivid book. That is high tribute to Hollywood...
After When Johnny Comes Marching Home last week, Critic Lawrence Gilman of the Herald Tribune said: "[Harris'] is a brilliant, vivid, able and engrossing essay in the variation form. . . ." Said seasoned old William J. Henderson of the New York Sun: "One should not take such a composition too solemnly...
...organized as a good novel. The clearly visualized African landscapes' lovely in their panoramas, dense and difficult in detail, the remarkable variety of the hunting episodes, above all Ernest Hemingway's passionate absorption in the sport, combine to give the book the freshness and immediacy of a vivid personal experience. Moreover, the "idiotic abundance" of game, suddenly encountered after trying periods of inactivity, inspires
Since 1892 Columbia has stood on her fourth site, where her new domed Roman magnificence stands in vivid contrast both to here unpretentious Colonial beginnings and the modern motorized millieu...