Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They would discover Carne's success in creating mood or atmosphere--here one of acute depression, of utter hopelessness--by a combination of action, settings, lines, incidental characters, facial expressions, and omnipresent fog. They would feel themselves drawn into this gray morass until they themselves know the inevitable bleak prospect awaiting these characters. They would feel actual physical strain in the suspense which piles up to the only possible denouement...
...busy man these days is Major Woodburn: besides his persuasive posters, his recruiting publicity bureau on Governor's Island, off Manhattan's southern tip, turns out recruiting sales talks for radio programs. These tweak a prospect's ear with You're in the Army Now and The Stars and Stripes Forever, catch him by the nose with slogans like "Join the Air Corps and earn while you learn." One record starts with a guitar-plunked Hawaiian melody that compellingly conjures up dreams of grass skirts and whispering palms, ends with sign-on-the-dotted-line insistence...
Other war reissues promised or in prospect last week: H. G. Wells's Things to Come (1936), which proposes bombing cities with sleeping potion as a way to end war, The Big Parade (1925), What Price Glory (1926), Cavalcade...
...impression. Work hard now if you never do again." And obedient Yardlings--too many of them--languish long afternoons and evenings in Boylston Hall, a little awed by the lecture method of teaching, more than a little worried by the inevitable unfinished History 1 assignments, sincerely terrified by the prospect of November and Midyear examinations. Most Freshmen, in other words, are too conscientious...
...grain, of which the U. S. held 3,500,000,000. Two and a half million tons of sugar were on hand, the U. S. beet and cane crop was estimated at 2,100,000 more and in overproducing Cuba a crop of 3,500,000 was in prospect -all ample to meet U. S. needs (annual consumption: 6,600,000 tons) with plenty left over for the perennial Cuban surplus. For the fall killing there were a bumper pig crop, ample supplies of other meats except lamb, in which the 1939 crop is short, and Chicago packers were passing...