Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...comparative quiet of noon-hour one day last week in the mining village of Millfield, Ohio, a great rumbling and roar burst skyward. Suddenly the place swarmed with running human beings who converged on a wooden shed covering the shaft of Sunday Creek Coal Co.'s mine No. 6. Men, women & children hurried, hurried, their faces set, their eyes wide with foreknowledge that what every miner fears had happened. As they raced to the shaft-head, the earth shook beneath their feet again-another murderous, man-trapping, mind-shattering explosion. The racers were friends & relatives...
...must fight Wills before fighting anyone else. Meanwhile the late Tex Rickard was trying to arrange for Tunney to fight Dempsey. He was telling Tunney that the champion was sick, weak, "full of boils," telling Dempsey that Tunney would be an easier match than Wills; telling both to keep quiet about what he told them. At last the Tunney-Dempsey fight was arranged in Philadelphia and Tunney won the title. Then came further services from Agent Mara ? the ballyhoo...
Best directing?Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front...
Best production of the year?All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal...
...although California's energetic Sproul or Chicago's youthful Hutchins or Columbia's voluble Butler might go out to have a word with the football team, it is almost unknown for Princeton's quiet, academic Dr. John Grier Hibben to do so. What he told the varsity squad was simple. He said that the unprecedented series of defeats which Princeton has suffered this fall (from Brown, Cornell, Navy) indicated that Princeton had hit bottom. Logically he prophesied that in the remaining games (with Chicago, Lehigh, Yale) the team was bound to do better. When...