Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repeat performance of one of nature's most spectacular shows will take place this evening when the Western Hemisphere gets a look at the second lunar eclipse within six months...
...letter perfect: The unshaven faces, the drabness of the set at the picture's outset, and the reflection in each character's attitude of the weakness that found such ready companionship in the lynching mob. The music, too, served its purpose--not perhaps so well as in such a western as "Duel in the Sun"--but the dull repitition of a prairie tune dampened any tendencies toward melodrama...
...Incident" is about ten years old now but still popular enough and fine enough to be revived annually. If you've never caught one of these revivals and want to see a western that can possibly beat "The Treasures of Sierra Madre," don't miss the present bill at the Center...
While most of the University's experts were concerned with the effect of devaluation upon Great Britain and Western Europe, two in the Harvard family were nothing the impact of the British action upon Soviet Russia...
...Alexander Gerschenkrop agrees that because of the trade barriers, devaluation's overall effect on the Soviet East will be "small for the time being." But he remarked that, although Russia theoretically has been always trying to wreck the Marshall Plan, in practice she has continuously been exporting grain to western Europe, and buying some production goods in return. "Perhaps in economic policy, Russia is not so interested in discouraging western trade as we suppose...