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Word: selectivity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...White Hell of Pitz Palu" to be shown at the University Theatre next week is one of that very small and select group of motion pictures in which all of the elements of film making are carried to their highest refinement. The photography of the Alpine winter is in itself so striking that it could assure the success of the picture. At times it is impossible to conceive of where the camera could have been. But there is no one individual feature that can be singled out as better than any other. The daring flying of Germany's greatest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/20/1930 | See Source »

...lightning rod industry continues. According to Department of Commerce figures issued last week, lightning rod business was $923,000 in 1928, $1,232,000 in 1929. Sales at present are running slightly ahead of normal. Thus the lightning rod industry must be added to those very select trades which are depression proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lightning Rods | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

...SALE?Saloon with property; old people want to retire; doing a $40,000-a-year business; never any liquor difficulties; catering to a select trade; a live wire can clear at least $20,000 yearly. This is one of the outstanding opportunities of a lifetime. BERGEN BUSINESS BROKERS, 221 River St., Hackensack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Saloon for Sale | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...given his official patronage to a Second International Exhibition of Persian Art* forthcoming at London's Burlington House, Jan. 5 to March 1, 1931. He went further and did what no Persian monarch before him dreamed of doing: gave official sanction for the Exhibition's experts to select loan exhibits from the Royal collection, Imperial Library, National Museum, the famed mosques of Kum, Ardebil and Mashad's Imam Reiza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Persia on Parade | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...this question to theologians, psychologists, men-in-the-street. One opinion, printed in the New York Herald Tribune, came from Director George Herbert Sherwood of the American Museum of Natural History. Said he: "Presumably if anyone is to reach civilization at all, there must be one guide selected for the trip. If the two guides are equally effective, I should select the younger man as probably possessing the greater stamina. Under such circumstances, there is no doubt in my mind but that the leader should remain. There is little probability that the son could stand the hardship. He would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Extremely Bright Boys | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

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