Word: make
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hunchback of Notre Dame: "I saw myself act and heard myself talk for the first time in my life. I looked a little different than I thought I would and my voice didn't sound the way I thought it always did. ... I was nothing to make myself say I was wonderful; but then, I don't think I was awful either...
...methods of treatment have usually started with great fanfare, and landed on the medical dust heap within three years. One British researcher advised his colleagues to "make haste to use a new remedy before it is too late...
Between Christmas and New Year's, when university students are at home playing, university scientists get together to talk shop, make an informal but massive audit of a year's research. Last week scientific meetings were popping all over - the big, democratic American Association for the Advancement of Science in Columbus; organic chemists in St. Louis, sociologists in Philadelphia, astronomers in Delaware, Ohio, anthropologists in Chicago, geologists in Minneapolis, paleontologists in Pittsburgh, archeologists in Ann Arbor. Highlights...
...money bond veto, only remaining point of contention, C. & S. and the syndicate were given ten days in which to appeal. Meanwhile, Wendell Willkie issued a statement that tried to make two main points: 1) if Consumers Power's $70,000,000 of preferred stock is added to its common, its ratio of stock and surplus to capitalization rises to 49%; 2) that inclusion of a minority interest in Consumers would complicate the problem of integration-a problem irrelevant to the proceeding at hand...
...Hunchback of Notre Dame (RKO) is a more spectacular remake of an old horror film in which the late Lon (Man of a Thousand Faces) Chancy, with the help of an elaborately repulsive makeup, set a standard for cinema frightfulness hard to beat. So hard, that the more repulsive make-up (by Perc Westmore) with which British Cinemactor Charles Laughton proposed to beat it was a devoutly cherished secret of this production. Thirty-four pounds lighter than Lon Chaney's, Laughton's make-up consists of a sponge-rubber right cheek and false eye socket, which covers Laughton...