Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movies have found their forte in comedy, and are pounding away at it with gratification to all concerned. No need to linger in the drawing room and draw) out withering words, all in observance of the mity of space, no need for this with the wide world and dizzy speed at easy command. So the new comedy goes tearing around at a breakneck pace, and drives one into gulps of amazed laughter. "Love on the Run" is just such a picture, and keeps the promise contained in its title. But not content to run amuck with foaming month...
...ship and steering equipment in the stern, so that it can be towed by one of the auxiliary train at a rate of ten knots. Also in its stern there will be a pair of huge dam gates that will reveal, when opened, a great rectangular chasm, 125 ft. wide and running almost the entire length of the craft, into which disabled ships will be pushed at sea. When an ailing battleship is brought into position before the ARD-3, the dock's great bottom tanks will be pumped full of water to sink its keel below that...
...ball crossed between the goal posts, Vernon Struck would have been the major hero of last week's biggest football surprise. But the ball spun wide. Four plays later the score was still Yale 14, Harvard 13, the game was over and its hero was a squarejawed, 21-year-old Yale senior who, playing his last college football, had done it in the style he had made famous...
More than 3,000 music lovers packed the Municipal Auditorium, sat enthralled as Pianist Casadesus rippled through Scarlatti, were breathless as he began a Mozart sonata, suddenly winced when the piano's right pedal dropped off. Flinging his hands wide apart, Pianist Casadesus shrugged pathetically, ordered attendants to wheel the piano upstage, concluded the sonata on the house piano...
Except for the pontifical autobiography that the late John Hays Hammond wrote at the age of 80, U. S. mining engineers have been surprisingly reticent about their world-wide rovings, their climbs up high mountains and descents into the deep earth. Last week a successful mining engineer now little more than half Hammond's age offered a volume of reminiscence as informal as Hammond's was ponderous, less than half as long and twice as funny, and dealing with events that were as inconsequential as those that Hammond recorded were important. Saying he "would not be so brash...