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David Fenwick is duped by the cheap, voluptuous city-girl whom he marries, forgetting what it's like to be weaned on coal-dust, and sacrificing his ideals of mine-reform for the frustrating and impotent life of schoolmaster in his native hamlet. Novelist Cronin is a scientist, and the generally powerful plot of this movie goes back to his painstaking delineation of character. But when scenario-writers-in the inconceivably heroic turnabout of the mine-owner, Barras, and again in a superfluous and mystical epilogue-attempt to expand a stirring argument for public ownership into a vague essay...
Professor Hoadley is a scientist first, last and always--even to insisting on keeping in step with whomever he is walking down the street. As for excitement, he says he is "nothing on night life," though he admits that "the complex species of mammal found in such an environment is definitely an interesting problem. But then, that's not my field...
...regards soccer as a science and treats it as a scientist would his speciality. He is a coach who has played his sport and who knows it from every angle. The first thing that "Mac" demands from his students is a comprehensive knowledge of the game's fundamentals. This year he has inaugurated a system of recording the detailed play of each man. By keeping charts of every mistake and every good move of each player he is not only able to select the best men for each position with perfect confidence in his choice, but he can show...
...right by Negro music and its development. In the future it also intends to do right by Negro science, literature, sport, religion. Scheduled to go on the air about once a month for the next half-year Freedom's People hopes to feature such Negro eminents as Scientist Dr. George Washington Carver, Author Langston Hughes, Artist Aaron Douglas, Fighter Joe Louis many another...
...English scientist, Fox Talbot, had finally managed to evolve a transparent negative, a flimsy sheet of waxed paper from which, for the first time, prints could be reproduced. Talbot called his new kind of photograph the calotype. Taking Talbot's idea, Hill got technical assistance from a young chemist named Robert Adamson, set up a photographic studio in the heart of Edinburgh...