Word: stacking
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...there is anything to reproach about the picture, it is that the author appears to "stack the cards" in some of his situations to derive the greatest possible effect. But after all, who is to say that it might not have happened that way? Mr. Rattigan has exposed a man's soul with relentless probing, but at the same time with extreme delicacy, and that is about all one can ask of any playwright...
...dancing, and a feel for American material (forty-niners, chorines, Civil War vaudevillians). The critics clapped, but the going was hard. For the next half-dozen years, Agnes lived on a small allowance from her father, eked out with an occasional bond from her mother's badly depressed stack of securities. "Good heavens, baby," gasped Uncle Cecil in the innocence of his millions, "are you in this for your health...
...missing or stolen books. As a matter of fact, he relies mainly on his 46 years of experience working in University libraries. He started in the old Gore Library as a coat checker, moved into the newly-built Widener as a book checker, became shortly thereafter Superintendent of the stacks in Widener, and in 1948 was appointed an officer of the University with the title of "The Superintendent of the Stack and the Harry Elkins Memorial Building of the Harvard College Library." "My background really started long before because my mother worked with the University for 30 or 40 years...
Princeton looks good this year-and last-but how good is it? Like most of the other little old uncles of the Ivy League, it plays only Eastern teams. How would Princeton stack up against the power-packed Big Ten in the Midwest, or the sun-kissed giants of the West Coast? Last week an Associated Press poll of sport-writers ranked Princeton right behind Tennessee, Illinois and Maryland-and ahead of Michigan State and U.S.C. Many Western sportwriters, contemptuous of Eastern football, think that rating much too high. Others, looking at what happened last week to two of Princeton...
...leave the building, Raisz will live on in Cambridge, take occasional mountain-climbing trips, and sometimes go over to Memorial Hall for a Saturday night square dance. Music too is one of his great interests, and next to his desk at the Institute is a small phonograph with a stack of records nearby. At the end of my interview with him, he put a Mexican folk-dance on the record-player and said, "Don't go just now. Wait, this is very good." And then as the sound of music filled the room, he added under his breath...