Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music to the tempo which American films lack. The use of the camera, particularly in the opening scenes showing deck tennis, is equal to Hollywood's best, though not quite up to the standards so definitely set by the serious Germans. In chase scenes, a direct outgrowth of the Mack Sennet tradition, the director outdoes himself in making the sequences, tense with suspense, and in providing that complete ad absurdum which is the essence of true farce. To this movie there is a verve, a zest, an esprit which stamps it as typically French...
...multanimity,' or many-mindedness, which is growing stronger constantly while students in universities in New York city are forced to hold mass meetings in protest against restrictions on free expression of undergraduate opinion. The Conference on Students' Rights which met last Monday in New York City is the outgrowth of a type of administrative control which some schools have attempted, in an effort to allay radicalism, from which Harvard is entirely free...
...line is an outgrowth of the old Transcontinental Air Transport, over which Col. Lindbergh flew the first 48 hr. air-&-rail trip three years ago. Last year it began to operate an all-air service for passengers, but included an overnight stop in Kansas City. It took 36 hours. The new Comet schedule was made possible by perfecting night-flying facilities...
Last week Acting Secretary of State Castle sent a brief note to the British Embassy in Washington accepting the League of Nations' invitation to an International Monetary & Economic Conference. This parley, an outgrowth of the Lausanne agreement, will probably be held in London during the autumn. The U. S. is to join an organization committee to prepare agenda...
...outgrowth of the defunct Collegiate World, College Humor began in 1921 as a quarterly, the staff & equipment consisting chiefly of Publisher Lansinger, shears and pastepot. It was merely a scrapbook of cartoons and jokes from U. S. under graduate funny-books. In 1923 long, lean, curly-headed "Swanie" Swanson, fresh out of Grinnell College where he edited the Malteaser, got a job as Mr. Lansinger's secretary. He worked up to the editorship, was largely responsible for the editorial polish which College Humor later acquired as a monthly magazine of original fiction, articles, drawings, interspersed with clippings from the campus...