Word: particular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When I got down there, the first fellow that greeted me was Otto Kahn [Kuhn, Loeb & Co.]. ... I didn't recognize him as a particular friend of Norris and La Follette. . . . I looked around at that bunch and it seemed to me there was something doing and in a little while?this occurred in the reception room?I remember the distinguished so-called Senator-elect Vare was there?after a while someone lifted up a curtain on a table or a bookcase or something...
...steppes, cheering crowds. Chicago, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans have been photographed from the air hundreds of times. As seen from a window of the Graf Zeppelin they are not any more exciting than they have been in the past. Only a sense of the topical connection of these particular scenes and the unlikelihood that a camera could go around the world in a dirigible without finding anything interesting keeps you watching till the end. Apparently the unlikely has happened. There is a synchronized sound accompaniment, but that was put in at the studio. Best shot: one of the crew...
...before the operator, for each letter and number he dials he causes a separate drum to revolve. On each drum is fixed a talking film on which one of the clearest-speaking operators in New York City, chubby Miss Catherine M. Shaughnessy, has registered digits or letters as the particular drum requires. When dialed, the drums swirl until the called symbols stop alongside telephoto tubes. Light shines through the exposed part of the drum film and modulates the tube current, which is transformed into the sound waves of Miss Shaughnessy's best accent. The manual operator listens, plugs...
...debaters will discuss aspects of the question of censorship which are at present troubling the country as a whole and Boston in particular...
...Many complaints have been made against both place," said Henry Penny-packer '88. Chairman of the Committee on Admissions at Harvard when questioned concerning the proposed changes. "The comprehensive plan in particular is criticized because of its extreme difficulty, and we hope to secure some arrangement whereby the two methods may be consolidated...