Word: equally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Golden Boy (Columbia) is not the first prize-fighter picture whose hero fails to win the championship, but it is the first to portray a fighter as a pitiable neurotic. Joe Bonaparte (William Holden) has a beautiful pair of hands, which he can use to equal effect playing the violin or smashing a face. The violin seems likely to win out with thoughtful Joe until Manager Tom Moody (Adolphe Menjou), threatened with the loss of a promising meal ticket, gets his girl, Lorna Moon (Barbara Stanwyck), to stiffen Joe's spine. In Clifford Odets' play, Joe never...
...quarter-century ago conceived the hydrogenation process for making gasoline from coal, is likely to be one of the most useful men in warring Germany, and one of the most hated by those who have to eat his Ersatz foods. From sawdust Bergius has extracted a digestible sugar, equal in food value to barley. Of the sawdust 60% to 65% becomes sugar, 5% acetic acid, 30% lignin which can again be used to make charcoal or wallboard. The sugar can be converted into protein by treatment with yeast; into fat by feeding it to pigs. Apparently, up to the outbreak...
...made clear to these brave and unhappy men (the Boers) that, whenever they are ready to recognize that their small independence must be merged with the larger liberties of the Empire, there will be a full guarantee for the security of their property and religion, an assurance of equal rights . . . and what the British Army would most readily accord a brave and enduring foe-all the honors of war." Responsibilities of Empire he considered great; if nations under the British Crown could be healthy and happy "the cause of the poor and the weak all over the world will have...
...unique idea of teaching while you learn, combined with social service work, has been put into effect by the Phillips Brooks House "undergraduate faculty." Last year, the faculty's first, fifty students taught an equal number of high school boys from the lower income brackets subjects they were studying themselves...
Last week, in hot and humid Manhattan, delegates and visitors to Dean Russell's Congress jampacked Columbia's biggest hall, its gymnasium and two overflow meeting rooms to hear democracy defended. Present were delegates from 26 noneducational organizations, and an equal number of educators, some 3,000 all told. National Association of Manufacturer's Lammot du Pont rubbed elbows with C. I. O.'s James B. Carey. Only urgent business in Atlantic City and Paris kept away A. F. of L.'s William Green, France's Edouard Herriot (they sent messages). Among the speakers...