Word: weltered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luxury Liner (MGM) floats Metro's musical stock company in a welter of romantic complications which could be followed only with a navigation chart. The tangles are slowly and rather painfully unsnarled to the accompaniment of songs by Lauritz Melchior, Marina Koshetz and young Jane Powell, who is expected to carry the burden of a clumsy plot about a sea captain (George Brent) and his amorous passengers. Miss Powell makes a game try against heavy odds. The handling of Mr. Melchior, who also tries hard, is in the Hollywood tradition: two pan shots of enraptured listeners to every shot...
...Bush points to the G.I. bill of rights as one indication of progress: "The returning veterans ... have not demanded a welter of practical applied courses. In the field of science in particular, there has not been a rush to courses in gadgeteering, rather a wholesome inclination to try to get to the bottom of things scientific...
...function more freely if they were not entangled with each other. Another matter that concerns some students is that organizations formed this year will be likely to disband after the election. But this hardly seems to be a sound argument for refusing a charter. In fact, none of the welter of secondary issues alters the basic fact that Radcliffe's students, having become politically conscious, deserve to be allowed to exploit that consciousness as fully as are students in other colleges...
Meanwhile telephone operator Welter Braun was busy in the basement of Lehman Hall receiving the required hourly calls from watchmen and University police. "I don't mind putting in nights," says Braun, who works from 5 to 1 o'clock in the morning every other day and from 1 to 9 o'clock in the morning on the remaining days...
...those we locate in stones or chemical compounds. We are all, the living and the dead, the human and the subhuman, part of one future. We have different yet similar origins, careers and destinies. Each of us is a cosmic artist making use of the whole welter of the actual and possible to make that private unity which is ourselves most truly...