Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week he looked tired. But weariness sat on him lightly, like a film of ash over a smoldering fire. Powerful, solid, imperturbable, he sat at his desk with an air of utter confidence-the alert, nonchalant confidence of a skilled worker moving swiftly in a routine task. The crushing responsibilities of 1940 he wore as familiarly, as easily as his speckly seersucker suit, buttoned into thick wrinkles over his paunch...
...they met. The rod, like a darning egg inside a torn stocking, makes sewing easy. Of course the rod cannot be left inside, nor can it be removed. So Sidney Smith makes his rods of sugar in sizes to fit all types of blood vessels. Coated with a thin film of bland oil, the rod stiffens the vein or artery while a surgeon mends the break with overcast stitches. Clamps cut off the supply of blood during the stitching. Then the clamps are removed and in ten to 15 seconds, the warm blood melts the sugar and circulation proceeds normally...
...Charlie Chaplin was reported to have halted work on The Dictator "until such time as there is at least a change in the European war situation." The Chaplin publicity department said this could not be true because Chaplin was hard at work cutting the film...
Three movies showing Harvard scenes will be presented at the Geographical Institute, as well as a special film showing how reading speed may be developed. In Mallinckrodt laboratory will be a comprehensive exhibit of recent research in astronomy, chemistry, geophysics, geology, meteorology, mineralogy, and physics...
...common forms. He wrote it out of the poetic materials to which Americans always respond-the casual routine of their lives amid the sights, sounds, smells of the American earth. Because Sam Wood, who directed Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and a splendid cast have transferred Our Town, the play, to film without disturbing this basic poetry, Our Town, the picture, is a cinema event...