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Word: characterizations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Of course the Vultee strike is a serious matter at this time of breakneck rearming. Of course a strike which ties up production of the Army's basic training planes should be settled as soon as possible. But the stumbling block in the path to adequate defense is not the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABORING FOR DEFENSE | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

"The Westerner" is conventional, but so noisily and wholeheartedly as to be outright refreshing. Walter Brennan's superb acting as "The Law West of the Pecos" lends an undercurrent of profundity to all the merry, Western violence. The plot between the shootings is supplied by the Judge's incognito love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Dunster was branded as a heretic and a dangerous character because he expressed his belief that infants should not be baptized, but that baptism should be postponed until persons were old enough to know whether they desired to be baptized or not. This stand caused a great furore among the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FUNSTERS WILL COMMEMORATE TWIN ANNIVERSARIES BY FORMAL DINNER | 11/20/1940 | See Source »

Claiming that American colleges and universities pay far too much attention to the intellectual aspect of the student, and far too little to his morals and character, Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin stated his conception of an ideal college for the development of both to a recent Soc. A class.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOROKIN PLANS TEMPTATIONS FOR "IDEAL" ENTRANCE EXAM | 11/20/1940 | See Source »

The entrance examination would consist of having hundreds of beautiful chorus girls, scantily clothed, lounging around the Yard, beside tables of delectable edibles. Any prospective student who possessed the moral character to withstand the seductive charms of both the women and food for three days would then be eligible to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOROKIN PLANS TEMPTATIONS FOR "IDEAL" ENTRANCE EXAM | 11/20/1940 | See Source »

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