Word: heightened
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with tiny windows covered with lattice grille-work in strong steel. There was something bout that window at the end of the corridor of the library that reminded him of that old eighteenth century county jail. The steel book-racks, the dull concrete floors of the corridors served to heighten the impression that he was in prison, tortured by the Gods and Harvard college for a number of weeks, all for the cause of a thesis...
...THEM DIE-Shirley Millard- Harcourt, Brace ($1.50). Spare, simply written diary of a young, red-haired U. S. volunteer nurse in French hospitals near the front lines of 1918, in which romantic interludes heighten rather than ease a grisly atmosphere...
...last winter it had long been unanimously conceded by all prizefight experts that Louis would win the heavyweight championship as soon as he fought the current holder, James J. Braddock-who had won it from Louis' predecessor as super-fighter, Max Baer. The desideratum was to heighten not the suspense but the dramatic finality of this achievement by delaying it as long as possible. In the hope that doing so would prove a profitable venture, 20th Century Sporting Club dug up Schmeling who, since losing the title to Jack Sharkey and being thrashed by a second-rater named Steve...
Most people who take their theatre-going seriously managed to see Helen Hayes in Mary of Scotland, one of the dramatic events of 1934. Memorable sequence in that play was the hapless Scottish queen's leave-taking from her lover Bothwell (Philip Merivale). Minus swords and capes to heighten the drama, Miss Hayes as the dumpy little royal matron of Victoria Regina manages to pack an astonishing amount of tragic power into her dismay at Albert's fatal chill...
...self help work. The depression has at once reduced the opportunities for self help and increased the demand upon such opportunity as does exist. To keep a college a cross section of the best in American life is therefore more difficult. But the difficulties only heighten the importance of proper steps to maintain our great universities as truly national institutions. The Harvard National Scholarships, designed to attract men of the most promising qualities from every state in the Union, should enhance further Harvard's great influence in the training of each generation to take its part in our democracy...