Word: adventism
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...advent of Professor Hind, an art critic of recognized authority, is awaited in the confident expectation that the high standards set by previous incumbents of the chair in their interpretation of poetry in its-stricter sense will be maintained in the consideration of poetry in its broader scope...
...advent of the House Plan includes as an integral feature a more personal contact between faculty and men rooming in the new dormitories. In some quarters the failure of the Faculty teas may be construed as an excellent barometer for the reception of faculty color by the men down on the river. However, there may be justification in the theory that it is infinitely less agreeable to tramp through the slushy environs of Cambridge to the Union than to play the role of willing auditor before the blazing long-fire of the House common-room...
...advent of the motor car and the airplane has given the individual a new relation to his environment by establishing new and infinitely more profitable standards of time and distance. The motor car has changed man's radius of action from 30 to 300 miles a day, while the airplane has increased it to a thousand miles or more. These are substantial contributions to American life...
...leader, Convict Henry Sullivan, to tell them how the guards and troopers at the main gate, where the siren was screaming, had received their ultimatum, a soiled paper across which was scrawled "For God's sake, give them what they want," followed by Warden Jennings' signature. The priest's advent was an accident, not to be considered, an irrelevant, frantic voice, begging them to think, to undo what they had done. His words fell on the deaf faces like a flurry of wind on stone...
...other picture, "Three Live Ghosts", is one of the best balanced productions made since the advent of the talkie. By its very nature it makes no claim to being a great artistic endeavor, but it is almost perfect as entertainment. Movie directors would be doing a real service if they would unearth more pictures of the type of "Three Live Ghosts". Like good modern novels, they are very pleasant pastimes, even though we hesitate to claim for them immortality. Unfortunately they are just as rare as good modern novels...