Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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State Secret. Chills and chuckles in a British chase-melodrama set behind the Iron Curtain; with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (TIME...
...Government further objected to the way the defendants set the price of new securities: fixing the price at which they bought the securities from the issuer, and then setting a noncompetitive price at which they sold them to other dealers and investors. As far as Stebbins could see, the investment bankers couldn't lose. Snapped Medina: "I don't see how else [they] could do it. [They] certainly would not . . . make a deal in which [they were] sure to lose money...
...Argosy; Republic] continues the descent of Director John Ford into his latter-day role as scourge of thd redskin and glorifier of the U.S. Cavalry. The Rover-boy characters, the conflict of love v. duty, the boisterous comic relief, the cavalry charges and screeching Indian raids are all here, set against the well-photographed buttes and plains of what used to be God's country before Ford took it over...
...varsity track team won the season's first indoor meet Saturday afternoon at Briggs Cago, running up 69 1/3 points against 53 1/3 for Boston University and 14 1/3 for Northeastern. Late in the meet, after most of the onlookers had left, the high jump bar was set at 6 feet, 3 1/2 inches and the height measured carefully. Tall, 24-year-old Dick Barwise then sailed over on his first attempt and set a new Harvard record by a quarter of an inch...
...then that Nazi propaganda lies about Roosevelt's racial background could have begun. For each time a new set of officers was elected in those days a comic poster was printed playing on the names of the new men. In FDR's case it read: "For Secretary, Rosy Rosenfelt, The Lillie of the Valley...