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Word: certain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Peter Elser seems to have an inside track in the left tackle fight with Vern Miller, and Don Forte rates the call over John Morgan at right end. Neither Don McNicol nor Captain Joe Gardella scrimmaged yesterday, but both are certain starters at tailback and bucker respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spreyer Back As Team Drills For Sabrinas | 10/3/1940 | See Source »

...compose a score which fulfills the requirements of the action and at the same time stands on its own feet as a piece of music and an expression of the composer's self. Most screen scores, even the more recent ones, tend to stick pretty closely to certain standard formulae. To compose music for a comedy especially leaves little leeway for originality, although Prokofieff's comic score to Lieutenant Kije, now recorded as a separate suite, is a masterpiece of its kind. A couple of years back, movie composers tinkered with classical themes as seeds for their music. The turned...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 10/3/1940 | See Source »

...Given adequate stock piles of tin, high-grade mica, radio quartz, industrial diamonds, and a half-dozen deficient ferroalloying minerals and certain tropical plant materials, we could be virtually independent of overseas imports for years at a time," Mr. Tyler said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business Review Article Says U. S. Near Self Sufficiency | 10/2/1940 | See Source »

Several excellent lithographs by Henri Matisse are on exhibit in a very inconspicuous corridor of the Boston Museum. In his lithographs, Matisse accentuates certain elements of form and composition which, in his paintings, are less obvious. In other words, when we look at one of his prints we are better able to discover just what the artist is trying to do; his paintings, though by no means cryptic, require greater exercise of critical powers...

Author: By John Wilner, | Title: THE ARTS | 10/1/1940 | See Source »

...there will be no standards of required background work. However, if men who plan to compete for the technical board have not had any previous technical training, they may be expected to have courses in Physics or radio included in their schedule of future studies. In any case, a certain amount of basic technical radio instruction will be included in the competition along with an explanation of the hook up to be used in the Harvard system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NETWORK TRIALS OPEN TOMORROW | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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