Word: done
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who felt as he did would be at a disadvantage. And so he has made an attempt to introduce into the fight a few rules of fair play. He has appealed to the opposition not to present the issue as one of immediate war or peace. He has done the same thing President Roosevelt did at the outset of his message to Congress when he attributed high motives to his opponents and asked them for reciprocation...
...road? The answer is a combination of three names, three figures who have given the contemporary stage in America a great deal of its high quality and some of its greatness,--Cornell, McClintic, and Miclziner, star, director, and stage designer. They put on a production so polished, so beautifully done in every respect that Mr. Behrman's temporary foibles fade into the background...
...bought $288,558.-ooo. But by the end of 1938 sales to the U. S. dropped to $126.820,000, purchases in the U. S. dropped to $239,620,000 and Japanese merchants could see in black & white what a boycott, a recession and short exchange had done to their business...
Earl Mines Album (Hot Record Society) does for "Father" Hines what Commodore has done for The Lion but metronomic, implacably austere Pianist Hines does not do quite so well for himself...
Mark Van Doren* has done this job and maybe more. His qualifications would be hard to better. As a critic, Van Doren began his career in 1916 with a study of Thoreau, followed by an acute book on Dryden in 1920. An instructor at Columbia, he collaborated with his brother Carl on a textbook in 1925 (American & British Literature Since 1890). A poet of steadily finer weave and frosty skill, he published his Collected Poems this year. From 1935 to 1938 he studied cinema as The Nation's movie critic. And for the last ten years he has taught...