Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...physical effects can be managed with the sound and color cinema in its present phase of development, Mr. Anderson has brought off successfully, brilliantly. Miniatures have been juxtaposed with full-sized sets in technicolor, as when Whiteman carries his whole band onto the stage in a satchel. Later the normal-size orchestra plays on top of a monster piano. There are sets that spring, completed, out of the floor, in time to notes of music. There are deep romantic backgrounds of Maxfield Parrish blue, ballets in the warmest, though slightly blurred, pastel tints yet achieved in technicolor. There are angled...
...simply that all of us feel the need of a change. Like it or not, religion to a student is an intensely private affair and he hesitates to make public his inner attitudes. It is my private opinion that religious associations in college have not sufficiently recognized this normal religious reticence on the part of the majority of men. Fellowship in the more personal and intimate phases of religious experience should be kept for private, congenial groups, where sincerity can be protected from publicity. . . . Many men in college today are ready to offer their help, but hesitate...
...part German, injected at intervals, usually with the effect of interrupting rather than heightening the rapid, graphic flow of visual imagery, this picture deals with men and women in Australia during the gold rush. The men worked in a harsh country, with a fever that made the values of normal life as remote as the riches of hallucination driving them on. The women came to join them, an adventurous shipload of outcasts, each numbered and assigned in lottery to waiting pioneers. One of the women dies coming over, and the man, a telegraph operator, originally assigned to Bride 68, gets...
...last year), tremendous stocks of copper have piled up. At the end of March the American Bureau of Metal Statistics reported this surplus as 522,581 short tons, almost twice what it was a year ago. If copper on consignment were added, the figure would be larger, and, under normal business conditions, a five-month supply. On the other hand, copper consumers have very small inventories and when buying starts it will be on a big scale. Although the reduced price means much smaller earnings for copper producers, this is foreseen, is some-what balanced by the fact that greater...
...employment of a group of noble individuals whose usefulness, a few short years ago, seemed gone forever. These are 'bouncers' of that simple and primitive anti-alcoholic ardor that cleared the saloon of 'bums' when those gentlemen by raucousness or unseemly act impeded normal intellectual discussion or progress of any worthy cause...