Word: whole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guerre with two palms and two stars, Müdaille des Epidemics, the U. S. Certificate of Merit. She is now Mrs. T. Bentley Mott, wife of the head of the American Fund for French Wounded, Colonel Mott, onetime liaison officer between Marshal Foch and General Pershing. The whole Biarritz colony, French and foreign, are exceptionally war-work-minded, last week were furiously getting truckloads of warm clothing, cigarets and sweets off to the Maginot Line for Christmas...
...three-times-three. At Harvard, substitutes or injured players first led this protozoic cheering-either a "short Harvard cheer" or a "long Harvard cheer." At the University of Southern California, prim-collared professors directed the yells. Minnesota was one of the first colleges to elect a "yell marshal." His whole duty was to get the spectators to recite in unison, "Rah-rah-rah, Ski-u-mah, Minn...
...whole thing is perhaps too casual for the stage, which, though always professing to hold the mirror up to nature, yammers if things are not catchily focused, neatly glued together, sharply climaxed. Morning's at Seven not only builds toward very little, but is vagrant in method, minor in tone. It just happens to be amusing, persuasive, lifelike...
...accompaniments in soundtracks on the edge of film, it has been a question whether music on films would replace music on discs. Most obvious advantages of film records over wax records: 1) no surface noise or record wear; 2) simplification of storage problems (film is lighter, less bulky); 3) whole symphonies and operas can be played without stopping to flip a record or change a needle. As in cinema recording, music films can be cut and patched, their wrong notes erased, their sour ones replaced. Unlike phonograph discs, they can even be played backwards, which is said to improve some...
...believe the people of this community will be deterred by Mike Sullivan from reading what they want to read, hearing what they want to hear, seeing what they want to see. If the Holyoke Bookshop were to close, a whole range of social and economic thought would no longer be readily available in Cambridge. At a time of crisis when so many ideas are being reassessed, we feel that thin would be a serious intellectual loss. Bebe Stearns, for the Holyoke Bookshop...