Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...difficult problem of staging the play was rather well done. The set did not obtrude too much and there was sufficient activity both before and behind the scenery at all times to keep attention from centering too much upon...
...certain amount of justice in the criticism that the H. A. A. was withholding legitimate news for no other reason than to satisfy a dinner committee, but the important point is that all correspondents at a conference Monday agreed to hold the story until this coming Saturday, the date set for release. When the New York paper violated the ethics of journalism there was, of course, nothing for its rivals to do but protect themselves by printing the story also...
Students of the history of science may well date the birth of modern Oceanography from December 21, 1872, the day when the Challenger set sail from Ports-mouth, England, on her memorable voyage. Thenceforth, with every fresh venture below the surface of the sea, such a flood of new facts came pouring in that it seemed for a time as though this fact catching could never lose its novelty. One great deep-sea expedition led to another and more was learned about the sea during the last thirty years of the nineteenth century than had been during the preceding three...
...Brent in more than one likeness. She has the same trick of using lassitude as a means of conveying the impression of inner fire that the Great Garbo has adopted. In appearance, there is the Garbo hair and the almost wooden face together with the Brent-like sharp jaw, set mouth and pointed nose; but she is more beautiful, though a less skillful actress, than either...
...first time. Fifteen times during the season, Slade the drum-major as well as the leader of the band, sent the long silver baton soaring over the crossbar of the goal post and each time he gracefully retrieved it. The altitude record for baton throwing was set between the halves of the William and Mary game when Slade hurled the baton over the crossbar seven feet above the uprights of the goal post to a distance estimated at approximately 28 feet...