Word: whereases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The set designers and cameraman show an unusually vivid sense of period, place, mood, and the immediate, living moment. As a result, some of the picture seems to be happening for the first time, whereas the run of movies are mere illustrations of what happened in a script. But in...
Henry Louis Mencken, the veteran volcano from Baltimore, had a wonderful time at the Wallace convention (see PRESS), and nearly became the subject of a resolution. Maryland Wallaceites wanted the convention to censure him for his reporting in the Baltimore Sun ("Whereas he has resorted to un-American slander against...
In regard to this problem, Dean Bender suggested a possible answer. "Perhaps in a couple of years, when the whole setup is shaken down a bit, we can re-examine class lists and separate a few of the largest courses again. It might be advisable in a few cases." A...
"Whereas the Faculty of Harvard College, with unprecedented barbarity and oppression, saw fit, in their asinine wisdom, to administer public admonition to the Sodality for absenting themselves from Cambridge during the whole night, serenading, Resolved not to play at the coming exhibition." Apparently a full punch bowl mellowed the members...
¶ Soviet capacity is still only about one-fourth that of the U.S., but this is offset, "in terms of European power politics, by the fact that the U.S. requires tremendous amounts of shipping . . . to supply Europe, whereas the Soviet Union is there on the spot."