Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitchcock direction complement each other perfectly. The result is high adventure worthy of Dumas combined with the trip-hammer pace of a first-rate detective story. Maureen O'Hara, Laughton's much-heralded colleen, is not, however, the sensation that one might expect. While she is admirable as a wide-eyed adventuress, it is hard to imagine her as a big-time all-around actress,--but then, you never can tell...
After all, this would only mean submission to a nation-wide trend. Sociologists and psychologists everywhere agree that sex is here to stay. Since such a step would be of majorette significance in Harvard history, it would be necessary to conduct a coast-to-coast beauty survey. But once we had her, no more chilly afternoons in Soldiers Field...
Herbert Hoover is a humanitarian, an unpractical politician. His characteristic proposal, overlooking the very nature of warfare, was greeted with wide disapproval. Yet hardly had his critics' chorus died down when Mr. Hoover's one overnight convert, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, stuck out his tanned neck to echo the same idea. But Lindbergh went further than the Great Engineer. Denouncing Canada's entry into World War II, he asserted that "sooner or later" the U. S. must "demand the freedom" of all European possessions in the Western Hemisphere as a defensive tactic...
...long as he kept the nature of his lethal ray secret, it was hard for skeptical scientists to prove that Mr. Longoria was talking big through his hat. But last week he laid himself wide open by announcing: "The ray lies in one of the unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the X-ray." This was a bit too specific. Professor Arthur Holly Compton, the University of Chicago's famed radiation authority, stated that there are no unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the Xray...
Opening a two-day conference of the Committee's executive group, he emphasized that "this ghastly war" has enlarged the refugee problem from one "of comparatively small magnitude," involving about 200,000 to 300,000 persons, to one of world-wide significance...